I just heard a great interview with Martin Bayne on the NPR show Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
Bayne’s somewhat unique position is that he suffers from early Parkinson’s (my Mom had this too) and as a result is in an assisted living facility about a generation before most people usually go there. As an MIT grad and journalist, and student of Buddhism, he seems well qualified to document and share this experience. He’s sick enough to be in the facility, and well enough to talk about it. He has an industry leading blog at thevoiceofagingboomers.com/
I put this in the religion section as an example of how sometimes the best of religion has little to do with religious ideology. There’s a bit of religion talk here, but mostly the conversation is all about human wisdom, insight, compassion, the little things of daily life, and death.
Our younger members will perhaps find this challenging, as they are probably still suffering from the illusion that they are immortal. That’s ok, that’s normal, but if you’re sincerely interested in religion, give this a try anyway, and you’ll struggle mightily to find anything to debunk. Sorry to ruin it for you.
You can hear the interview here:
npr.org/2012/09/06/160676993 … ted-living
One of the best interviews I’ve heard on NPR, and that’s saying something.