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My Very Last Life
by Eric T. Hansen (Grumpy Old Writer)Eric T. Hansen –also known as Grumpy Old Writer – looks back upon his 60 years gone before and forward to the last 20 yet to come ... You can also find this podcast (as well as other video series including "The Art of Worldly Wisdom") on my YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi9UKmK1_8oCL-rX2LKtMsw/featured?view_as=subscriber
Copyright: Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.
Episodes
Chapter 16: My Journey from Cynicism to Sincerity Part 2
37m · PublishedBy "Cynicism" I mean Truth," and by "Sincerity" I mean "Truth." Two different things.
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On Substance and Style – Chapter 15
38m · PublishedYou look for substance in life and what do you get? Style. Trendiness. A poor substitute, a Kaugummi popcorn milkshake mascara pink crappy substitute for something real.
On Substance and Style (Actually Trendiness) – My Very Last Life #15
Chapter 14: My Journey from Cynicism to Sincerity (Part 1, because I did not stay on point)
35m · PublishedA confused mess of cats and metaphors
This started out as „My Journey from Cynicism to Sincerity“ but then I got tangled up in cat metaphors and never got out – now I don’t know what it was really all about – listen at your own risk.
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Chapter 13: Lucifer & I
38m · PublishedA writer must see the world and reduce it to a parable. Then he must find a way to write about the parable. Lucifer and free will, the Germans and the vote to abolish democracy, lot of incoherent ramblings on a Sunday evening after a good steak and fries and with a glass of whiskey at the ready.
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Chapter 12: Teenage Wasteland Now
18m · PublishedRemember that time in church on a hot Sunday in Kailua, Hawaii, and you scribbled in your journal or on a notepad or in the margins of a paperback that the emotions you are feeling now - teenage emotions - are the only real thing you will ever feel? Stay true to that boy you were.
Chapter 11: Dickens vs. Marx: Who Wins?
34m · PublishedAm I the only one who thinks of Dickens and Marx as hero/anti-hero, two sides of the same coin? It seems natural to me - they were both of the same time, but such different cloth. Dickens seems so humane, Marx seems so … German …
My rant on Dickens vs. Marx.
When I turned 60 I resolved to live my last good 20 years as if they were the first twenty, but knowing more than I did then. This is my journal of that journey.
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Chapter 10: Thank you, Trump, for ticking another one off my Bucket List
28m · PublishedHere I sit on a Sunday evening, I made myself a steak and fries, I fed the cats, I have a whiskey with lots of ice and water and I'm thinking about what it means that Trump was sitting there waiting to see what would happen as a couple of hundred idiots stormed the capitol.
Similar things happened here in Germany and it wasn't that long ago and they too got nowhere near a successful coup. It was just stupidity. But – without wanting to, Trump gave me something I am, grateful for. I always wanted to see the future and now, thanks to him, I do.
When I turned 60 I resolved to live my last good 20 years as if they were the first twenty, but knowing more than I did then. This is my journal of that journey.
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Chapter 9: Resolutions
31m · PublishedOn New Years Eve, not long before midnight, Astrid said to me the most beautiful thing I think I ever heard.
And: New Year's Resolutions, but not really resolutions, more like work-arounds.
When I turned 60 I resolved to live my last good 20 years as if they were the first twenty, but knowing more than I did then. This is my journal of that journey.
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Chapter 8: Looking to 2021
31m · PublishedJust Drunk Eric rambing on about the end of the year ...
Trading in the horrible year 2020 for just about anything, really anything better in 2021 …
and yet, I refuse to let 2020 go without wringing something good out if it. So here's me trying to go that. *this was recorded a few days ago - I held it up for New Year's.)
But to get the New Years part, you have to go through another bout of winging and whining about my dead friend.
Wishing all of you all the best in the New Year - good luck and Guten Rutsch!
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Chapter 7: Learning from Claus
25m · PublishedStill thinking of Claus, dead a week now - warm-hearted but arrogant and selfish, funny and honest but ... well arrogant. But there is a thing I want to learn from him, carry around inside me in his absence. My Very Last Life - my unedited thoughts about my life at and after 60 and making something out of it I could never have done earlier.
My Very Last Life has 100 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 30:14:14. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 23rd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on December 8th, 2023 08:10.
