oldness

Nostalgia became a default listening mode — and for me, the cumulative oldness felt distressingly new.

In the US, the fight against oldness has become social ritual, enforced by private fear and social momentum and a for-profit healthcare industry.

What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.

But I am realizing, now that I'm in the middle of oldness, there's something wrong with me: It doesn't go in; I just never let it get to me.

And there was the house, Warings, the darkness and oldness of it, and the queer smell, he was frightened all the time he was here.