Life Part 2 on PBS–Worth a Look Boomer Girls
A while back the associate producer sent me an invite to watch this all-things-boomer show. I’ve never had the change as it plays locally way past my bedtime. But I continue to get the emails and the topics were fascinating enough that I had to click through to their blog site for a preview now and again.
Good news, I don’t have to stay up late–and miss my literal beauty and health sleep–you can watch all the episodes that have played, right on their site!
Last week’s was about how it feels to age–literally. A professor up in Nova Scotia created something called The Empathy Suit to give his students an experience of how it feels to move about your day in an elderly person’s body. Made me want to go to the gym. Check it out.
The half hour also covered whether or not replacement surgery should be the default for pain and quality of life and, you won’t believe this, Martha Stewart. What’s she got to do with aging? Come on, she’s as adept at extending her brand as anyone out there and she’s opened The Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. As the host, Robert Lipsyte says,”From the cradle to the grave with Martha.” She smiled that “It’s good to be Martha” smile of hers.
I had to laugh when she said about her book in progress, “I’ve written the book on how to take care of your home I should be the person to write a book on caring for yourself and your loved ones.” Really.
The show has covered topics like, plastic surgery, dating at midlife, spirituality and aging, Alzheimer’s, and lots more. It’s never the same old stuff and the guests are a mix of experts, medical people, authors, actors and so on.
I’ll leave you with a clip from the show when Robert Interviews Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood turned actress, speaker, news commentator, on their plastic surgery episode.
Click this link to watch the video
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I am waxing a little nostalgic these days, participating in an old fashioned cookie swap, when I came across your post here about the PBS series LIFE2. As suggested, I took a look. WOW! There is a little bit of something for everyone here. I started scrolling along the YouTube videos and even found one about NOSTALGIA. Too funny. I guess there is a danger in waxing TOO nostalgic too often. It’s good to get out and try something new. That’s exactly why I joined in the cookie swap. Because it’s old fashioned, but new, too. It’s a Virtual Cookie Swap, which made me laugh – who, me? Doing something “virtual?” Anyway, change is good. Thanks for reminding us about that.
I also like the PBS LIFE2 video you linked to – The Empathy Suit. It really did drive home a few points. I think everyone should be issued one of those suits. It’s sad to think that we pride ourselves in our own health and fitness at the exclusion sometimes of our empathy for others who are not healthy and fit because they are very old. Thanks for the reminder.
I, too, got an invitation to watch Life (Part 2) and have posted about it a couple of times on my blog. I even got to interview Robert Lipsyte on Feisty Side of Fifty Radio. But I live on the West Coast and my local PBS station hasn’t as yet aired the show. I’ll head on over to their website because, yes, they cover lots of fabulous information aimed just at us and the oh-so-groovy generation we are!