My broken chair
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A man discusses a chair that he owned for 30 years and had cherished until it breaks one day. The chair is an Eames chair that he had purchased when he was a poorly paid university teacher. When the chair breaks, he does not have it repaired, but buys a new one. He compares this act to moving on in life and not holding on to the past too much.
Publication Name: Modern Maturity
Subject: Personal finance
ISSN: 0026-8046
Year: 1999
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Next ... rules of aging part deux
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Passivity should be chosen over agression in the art of growing older. Guidelines offered for aging properly include never saying to anyone that "this is the best you've ever done" or "you look great today." Other rules to remember include: everyone's work is magnificent, never correct anyone's English, and never make witty and clever remarks,
Publication Name: Modern Maturity
Subject: Personal finance
ISSN: 0026-8046
Year: 1999
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Look elsewhere for Eden
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The first experience never can be totally recaptured. A trade, for example, is gradually learned until it becomes routine, and the poetry, promise, expectations, and hope of the initial experience have faded away.
Publication Name: Modern Maturity
Subject: Personal finance
ISSN: 0026-8046
Year: 1995
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