If you're an English speaker alive in 2022, you likely have heard the word adolescence — to increase toward the full of extent of possible growth. However, you may be less familiar with the word senescence — to decrease away from the full extent of possible growth. Senescence is unique to adolescence because senescence builds on and includes ongoing adolescent processes, as we continue to gain wisdom and perception that is new to us even as our bodies and some aspects of our process is on a declining or waning trajectory as well. Here in the mix of increasing and decreasing maturity, senescence provides a gray area that is unlike any other in our lifetimes, where we are faced with the task of reconciling what youth and aging means to us. What are you already learning about aging and the decline of the human body? What does this mean to you?
[image description: A heart with wrinkles, gray hair, and a rollater or walker on wheels stands on ground that is mottled with different shades of gray. Text reads: "Senescence."]
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~ 11/9 ~
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~ celebrating four years of daily cartoons ~
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