Rebel Birthday Celebrations
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2006-12-15 03:17:56
Topic :Aging
Today my Mum (Gilda) is 92 years old. She sits in her room, decorated with hundreds of photos of her family, silk butterflies hanging from the ceiling, tweeting mechanical birds perched on the TV and enough artificial flowers to remind one of the Mexican Day of the Dead. She crochets hats for Europe. I have 37 in a drawer at home and share them with anyone who visits me and smiles. Every day she tells me she loves me and has requested that when she dies I publish in the local newspaper a list of things she hates. It starts with President Bush, then black patent shoes, sex on TV, the list goes on...
What Do You See?
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2006-11-01 01:21:34
Topic :Aging
I’ve recently met an amazing lady - Amanda Waring – who is an actress, writer, director and campaigner, and she’s doing some fabulous work on the issue of ageism. Amanda has sent me the below regarding her work and her short film.
You Are Only As Old As You Feel
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2005-10-14 01:04:56
Topic :Aging
As I’ve got older, I’ve got more radical. I remember seeing so many people of my age protesting at the WTO Meeting in Seattle in 1999 – now that really perked me up! We were literally on the front line of the protests, we were tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed but nothing was going to deter our right to be heard. I realised at that point, that even if I don’t want to take physical risks any longer, the thrill of action and the discipline of commitment will always make my life more worthwhile.
Gilda, Garlic, and Forget-Me-Nots
Posted By Anita on 2004-02-25 02:49:12
Topic :Aging
My mum is a very Italian woman, sharp as a tack at 89 years old and very much her stubborn self. But her body is giving up on her. After 65 years in the same house in Littlehampton -- the home in which I was born and grew up -- Gilda Perilli now spends her time in a residential hotel where she's among the youngest guests.
