{"id":2286,"date":"2013-06-05T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2013-06-05T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:12:06","slug":"time-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2013\/06\/05\/time-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2288\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2288\" class=\" wp-image-2288     \" alt=\"\u201cCross the evening sky All the birds are leaving. How can they know, Time for them to go?\u201d Sandy Denny Who Knows Where the Time Goes?\" src=\"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TimeQuote.png\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TimeQuote.png 507w, http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TimeQuote-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TimeQuote-450x300.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5oBMDcLf6WA<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0I\u2019ve noticed that many of the posts I write are about the past. I never wanted to be the kind of writer who dwelt in the past. I always thought of myself as someone who was forward-thinking, even futuristic in my outlook. Why is this happening to me? I don\u2019t want to be thought of as a sentimental old fool, out of touch, an anachronism, a useless elder whose wisdom is boring and meaningless to young people.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But wouldn\u2019t I look sillier if I tried to keep up with the fashions and trends of the young? God forbid I should get a tattoo, or worse, a piercing! I\u2019m not on Facebook. I don\u2019t Tweet. I use a Smartphone, but crudely, for basic functions, not the way I see my daughter using it, as a multipurpose instrument, accessing web sites, texting, and updating her Facebook page on the fly.<\/p>\n<p>Are there some pieces of knowledge that are only available to those of a certain age? Everything I know about the creative process tells me that\u2019s not true.\u00a0 Deep creative inspiration can come at any time.\u00a0 Mozart started writing symphonies at the age of eight. Conversely, Nikos Kazantzakis wrote all his most famous works, <i>Zorba the Greek<\/i> and other novels, after he turned sixty-five.\u00a0 There are no rules about creativity.<\/p>\n<p>And there are no rules about how to live, or what being young or old should look like. If you\u2019re a young person who has new perspectives on life, don\u2019t hold back&#8211;share them! And if you\u2019re an older person and you want to dress in wild colors, or dye your hair bright red, or plaster your body with ink, go for it!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to fall back on a chestnut from another old and nearly forgotten writer from the past:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2291 aligncenter\" alt=\"Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 - 1882)   \" src=\"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Quote2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I\u2019ve noticed that many of the posts I write are about the past. I never wanted to be the kind of writer who dwelt in the past. I always thought of myself as someone who was forward-thinking, even futuristic in my outlook. Why is this happening to me? I don\u2019t want to be thought of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-body-and-spirit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-AS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}