Patricia Bunin writes the Senior Moments column each week.
The start of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2006 in Mumbai, 15 January 2006. I’ve always thought of myself as being an adjective or sometimes an adverb. But last week that changed. , I heard something that would affect my entire future. The words were spoken by the high-spirited young woman who George Bernard Shaw wrote into the character of Hypatia Tarleton in
Lamenting the boredom of her privileged life, she declares with great vigor, “I want to be an active verb.” I felt like I had just heard a manifesto for aging. Jump on your horse and keep riding, even if it turns into a slow trot. Especially when it turns into a slow trot. As if to remind me that I had left out the word “active,” she leaped into the air and started running toward the kitchen, pausing once to look back and make sure I was following.
My modest home has turned into her mini-mansion and she never runs out of new places to explore. She even finds new places in her new places. After a year of napping on pillows in the linen closet, she moved up two shelves to the afghans and quilts and had fun outsmarting me into a panic when I couldn’t find her. Then she finally wriggled one delicate tuxedo white paw from under the lavender and purple quilt my mother-in-law had made as a wedding present for my late husband and me.
Even now as I am writing this she actively leaped up on my desk, after “guilting” me into giving her a late-night treat.
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