2020年10月22日 星期四

爬山、登山健行足跡遍及全球 (幸福熟齡)

 

登上尼泊爾海拔超過4100公尺高山，腳踩皚皚白雪，抬頭望去群山環繞，遠處的魚尾峰閃耀著迷人光彩，流連忘返於眼前的壯麗山景；又或是踏上秘魯馬丘比丘小徑，一步一腳印登上2400公尺的「天空之城」，遙想古印加帝國的輝煌歷史……
葉金川的旅行總和別人不一樣，山，是他的不老泉。
20歲迷上爬山、60歲前征服台灣百岳，每次出國旅遊都要搭配一座山才過癮！登山健行足跡遍及亞洲、美洲、大洋洲、非洲的他，最高紀錄是征服海拔5137公尺的土耳其第一高峰阿拉拉山，為人生留下精彩回憶！
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2020年10月18日 星期日

As They Aged, They Started Businesses for People Like Them

 

 
As They Aged, They Started Businesses for People Like Them

RETIRING

As They Aged, They Started Businesses for People Like Them

By Susan B. Garland

After working for others, some Americans find opportunities in working for themselves — while catering to people growing older.

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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich 《老到可以死》

 

批判預防醫學、批判健康飲食、批判正念冥想......芭芭拉艾倫瑞克的書一向如此，她就是個愛開地圖砲的憤青。你說她真的要批判什麼嗎？應該有，但與其說她在批判，或許更應該說，她在刺激我們開始批判。
讀這本書，向來在意身體健康的你可能會覺得自己一直「中槍」。那麼，到底芭芭拉想在《老到可以死》這本她面對自己邁入高齡的書裡對我們說什麼？https://bit.ly/3nWiMsf

原文書名Natural Causes，直譯就是「自然死亡」，芭芭拉的重點的確放在怎麼面對死亡這件事，「但今天的討論，我發現我們的重點是在如何好好地『生』。書的最後的確也回到生的討論，但這種在西方具有挑戰性的觀點，我們卻覺得理所當然。我們的社會其實從來想的就是如何好好地生、好好地老去。」

「我想，抱持著如何好好『生』的觀點，再讀一次這本書，或許會有不一樣的感覺。」最後，菁芳替那天的「中槍之夜」，下了這樣的結論。

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer  by Barbara Ehrenreich 


From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life -- from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture.
But Natural Causes goes deeper -- into the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and even our "mind-bodies," to use the fashionable term. Starting with the mysterious and seldom-acknowledged tendency of our own immune cells to promote deadly cancers, Ehrenreich looks into the cellular basis of aging, and shows how little control we actually have over it. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. But the latest science shows that the microscopic subunits of our bodies make their own "decisions," and not always in our favor.

We may buy expensive anti-aging products or cosmetic surgery, get preventive screenings and eat more kale, or throw ourselves into meditation and spirituality. But all these things offer only the illusion of control. How to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality -- that is the vitally important philosophical challenge of this book.

Drawing on varied sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature, Natural Causes examines the ways in which we obsess over death, our bodies, and our health. Both funny and caustic, Ehrenreich then tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end -- while still reveling in the lives that remain to us.

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2020年10月7日 星期三

The wise old man (also called senex, sage or sophos) "賢者"：

 

康韻梅〈唐人小說中「智慧老人」的探析〉，載《中外文學》1994年9月號，136~171

The wise old man (also called senex, sage or sophos) is an archetype as described by Carl Jung, as well as a classic literary figure, and may be seen as a stock character.[1] The wise old man can be a profound philosopher distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment.


日譯多採用"賢者"：


賢者（けんじゃ）は、

  1. 一般的に賢い人のこと。賢人（けんじん）。反対は愚者。著名な思想家を指して使われることもある。
  2. キリスト教新約聖書に登場する占星術の学者たち。東方の三賢者あるいは東方の三博士。マギ。
  3. 中世ヨーロッパの騎士道物語に脇役として頻繁に登場する智慧者、特殊能力者。また、これを下敷にしたファンタジー作品に登場するキャラクターのひとつ。In medieval chivalric romance and modern fantasy literature, he is often presented as a wizard.





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