My Very Last Life

Eric T. Hansen (Grumpy Old Writer)

My Very Last Life

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My Very Last Life

Eric T. Hansen (Grumpy Old Writer)

My Very Last Life

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My Very Last Life

Eric T. Hansen (Grumpy Old Writer)

My Very Last Life

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You know when you do some little thing, some local neighborhood charity thing, like you tutor some neighbor kid in speaking English (as a foreign language) that they're struggling with, and you know they will forget you as they grow up, as kids
Managed to fast all day yesterday, that’s a 38 hour fast, all total, and am deliberating whether to continue to lunch or have breakfast - but who am I kidding, breakfast is waiting in the kitchen and it’s spectacular, it’s carbs all the way, an
MY BINGE DIARY Part 1From Christmas on – actually from Thanksgiving on – I hav ew been eating like there’s no tomorrow. Yesterday I started fasting again and will fast (intermittently) until I get my weight back down below 75 kilos then to 72,
Been thinking about what makes a man a man and came to the conclusion that it’s all about the hat. It was.a little late when I recorded this and I had been drinking the kind of whisky that makes me sentimental, which is every kind … perhaps it
I’ve been telling myself for some weeks now that I don’t have that much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving … so I sat down and wrote a list of things I was not thankful for … then I took another good look at myself and saw the other side.
Reading Iliad, I had to think about heroes and heroic moral values … then Kyle Rittenhouse happened. My Very Last Life Chapter 41.
Look at the vastness of space – look at the empty space inside our molecules – what are the chances that you tried out to be a thing and not part of the Great Empty?
I have begun five inner journeys in my life – and hope I will conclude at least one or two of them before I die. Also, the Dad question. 
One meaningful relationship – it seems to me that no man should die without one – but I don’t know how to do it, or with whom. 
Funny how certain thoughts, loves, jokes, anecdotes, comments come to define certain sections of your life – I find myself increasingly bored with and rejecting the stuff that has defined me for so long.  My Very Last Life Chapter 37
 I worked as a journalist all my life and learning how to write to include what is important taught me also to notice when the important things re being left out – My Very Last Life Chapter 36
I actually wanted to talk about how walking regularly in the open air has made me much happier and less depressed, even surprisingly so, but then I lost focus and went off on a wild rant about death.My Very Last Life Chapter 35
Sometimes I turn around and see my cat watching me … and I wonder: How long has she been doing that? And why? And what does she know that I don’t? My Very Last Life Chapter 34Check out the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/594216
Lanikai – the title of my autobiographical crime story … it’s about my life, but but I don’t know what it’s about. 
My 61st birthday –one year into my Very last Life and as per schedule I decide what I am going to do with the last 20 years (now 19) of my life ...the entire plan, the boozey party by myself on the bridge overlooking the highway at 5:45 in th
One year down and 19 to go – next week I turn 61. So of course I sat down in the display furniture in the dark parking lot of Möbel Höffner and talked about it to myself. I was not alone.The first year of my Very Last Life has been lived and t
He is dead – the man me and Ralf have tried to make a video about for more than a year now is dead – Ziona his name, polygamy was his game and he played the game well. I doff my hat to the passing of a man who did what a man wanted to do.My Ve
Playing the brilliant game "The Last of Us II," I realized that modern feminism is really about women taking on the same masculine values that pretend to despise. Is the woman of the future a man with a vagina?   
There was the Greatest Generation, then the Hippie Generation, then me. 
A Hawaiian Highway at night, Bonnie Tyler singing Vampire Rock Opera, there is a time in everyone's life when they hold all of life in their hands like a basketball. My Very last Life Chapter 26. 
It’s Mother’s Day and I have to say the truth about my mother – she was a woman who did her fucking best and are you doing your fucking best? My Very last Life Chapter 25.
The only refuge from depression and whiney self-pity is purpose – but there are two kinds of purpose - big metaphysical and small amygdala versions.
When I think of heaven, or even just of the bar I want to spend time in, the bar of eternity, I think of the stable where five or six medieval writers sat around getting drunk. That's where I want to go. 
Okay so I got vaccinated and for me the crisis is over - but it doesn't feel like it's over. It doesn't even feel like it ever can be over. 
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