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Roasted Spinach with Chickpeas Recipe — Turkish Food and International Cuisine

Materials 1 kilo of spinach 1 large onion 4 tablespoons of olive oil 1/2 tablespoon of hot pepper paste 1 teaspoon tarragon 1 tablespoon of garlic powder… 139 more words

Roasted Spinach with Chickpeas Recipe — Turkish Food and International Cuisine

Stages of grief

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Thanh Tâm Tuyền
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh

STAGES OF GRIEF

1

Late into the night love is as absent as the curtain of night

(Em)my love, weave for me the delusions

From what is left of your innocence

The crazy wind of rejection upon a day yet to rise

The loneliness discarded in broken friendships

Alone I carry the burden

The familiar tearless path

The bitterness, leaves on the pavement

The black sea around me rising

A precarious throbbing isle adrift through the night

In the unforeseen confusion floating further away

Tied it back with your hair like your unfathomable spirit

The trees are too engrossed to answer or to hold onto any kind of reverie

Don’t be too quick to throw the strings of laughter down the…

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Seniors or older adults at 60

Anita's Perspectives on Life

Stigma of ageing

An older person is defined by the United Nations as a person who is over 60 years of age. However, families and communities often use other socio-cultural referents to define age, including family status (grandparents), physical appearance, or age-related health conditions.

Senior citizens are also known as elderly persons or simply as seniors. Categorically, a senior citizen is a social demographic based on age. Someone who is 35, for example, cannot be a senior. Being a senior citizen typically means that a person is at the age at which they retire from work.

Senior is one of the most common euphemisms for old people and happens to be the one I hate the most. To me, senior implies that people who receive the label are different and somehow lesser than those who don’t.

Of course, the word senior can also be used to signify experience…

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