Creative Writing Wordshops Newsletter August 2025

Ageing without getting Old

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be, the last of life,
for which the first was made….(Browning)

Of late I’ve been revisiting Octogenerianville where some of us live and
breathe, facilitating New Wine in Old Bottles – GAGA wordshops. GAGA (not
Lady) but Gracious Ageing, Grateful Ageing. (see offerings 6a and 6b at the
end of the letter.) So here we are, some of us hairless or silverhaired
(‘sure I love the dear silver that shines inyou hair’) filled with stories, rich in memory.

Like an artist we lie on our backs and paint our lives on
the ceiling. Like John Keats (who died at 25) ‘Much have (we) traveled in the realms of gold and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.’ How do we energise the myths we live by? Our big stories? Discovering these gifts to share and treasures to delight the mind, heart, eye and ear.

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