here<\/a>] celebrates Jini\u2019s lifelong curiosity, engagement with others, creation of a life in her own way, and a work ethic that continued into her tenth decade. She did not understand the word \u201cretire.\u201d<\/p>\nLiving into one\u2019s 70s, 80s, and 90s is nothing new, of course. Although accounts of exceptionally old people can be found throughout history, it\u2019s definitely becoming more common today thanks to modern medical advances and the huge increase in knowledge about health and aging. On average, we\u2019ll live 30 years longer than people did 100 years ago, and as a group we also have unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and sometimes resources. But culturally and economically we\u2019re really not prepared. If we do live into those \u201cextra\u201d years and aren\u2019t completely undone scrabbling for money to pay for them, we have to ask ourselves, how\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0we spend the extra time when \u201cretirement age\u201d comes so early?<\/p>\n![\"Bateson](\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bateson-making-pt-2-crop.jpeg\")
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Our society isn\u2019t organized to know what to do with us, and certainly not for as long as many of us are apt to live. As anthropologist and author Mary Catherine Bateson told a crowd at Town Hall Seattle in 2010, \u201cWe can\u2019t think of our extra 30 years as just tacked on to the end of our lives; thirty years is much too long for that.\u201d She urged us to see these extra years as a whole new period in our lives, saying that we\u2019re becoming a different species. \u201cI can imagine playing golf for a year,\u201d she said, \u201cbut not for\u00a030<\/em>\u00a0years.\u201d And if golf isn\u2019t your thing any more than it\u2019s mine, her sentiment applies equally well if you\u2019re not inclined, or can\u2019t afford, to travel the world for 30 years or if keeping your body tuned up just doesn\u2019t fill the days. Bateson called this time in our lives, \u201cthe age of active wisdom.\u201d The Jini Dellaccio Project builds on this spirit.<\/p>\n\u00ab\u00ab\u00ab\u00ab\u00ab\u00ab\u2022\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n* Substratum (pl. substrata): The material of which something is made and from which it derives its special qualities.<\/p>\n
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When he turned seventy in 1905, Mark Twain spoke at a lavish party thrown in his honor at Delmonico\u2019s restaurant in New York City. \u201cThe seventieth birthday!\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cIt is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re-artists","category-eighth-decade"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pXN0-iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u201cThe seventieth birthday!\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cIt is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach \u2013 unrebuked.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"CavanaughJini](\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/CavanaughJini-at-97-at-home-crop2-644x667.jpeg\")
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