iAging

What started in 2011 as a blog recording a six-month sabbatical to Australia, Doha, London, Malta and Turkey...ended up recording my own personal views of aging as I travel through my aging process. Followed by my second sabbatical in 2018-2019 that takes me to Malta, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, S Korea, Japan continues around the world to Canada and back to San Diego. An eight-month odyessy.

Friday, February 22, 2019

Religion

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Why do people feel a need to believe in religion? Walking around South East Asia there are temples everywhere. In small communities of less ...

Banality

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Visiting the S21 killing fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is sobering. A holocaust that the West was complicit in and silent about to th...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Religion and Constancy

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The feast day of Immaculate Conception was yesterday, it also happens to be by birthday which I was named Mario (for Maria.) There is a lot...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

My Home Town /Bormla

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It is the feast of my home town Bormla on Saturday. The 8th of December which is the feast of the Holy Immaculate Mary aka Virgin Mary aka...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Passport

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I went to renew my Maltese passport today. Needing a witness to verify my renewal my father and I walked across Valletta to another city Flo...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

In Search of the Magnificence and Banality of Humankind

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In Alighieri Dante’s Divine Comedy we find the intrepid adventurer Ulysses (Inferno XXVI, 90-142) burning in hell while being qu...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Coming of Age 2018

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Mario Garrett
Mario D. Garrett, Ph.D., is a professor of gerontology at San Diego State University, California. Garrett was nominated in 2022 and 2023 as "...the most popular gerontology instructor in the nation,” according to authority.org. He has worked and lectured at the London School of Economics/Surrey University, Bristol University, Bath University, University of North Texas, University of British Colombia, Tokyo University, University of Costa Rica, Bogazici University, and at the University of New Mexico. As the team leader of a United Nations Population Fund, with the United Nations International Institute on Aging, he coordinated a five-year project looking at support for the elderly in the People’s Republic of China. Garrett founded the international aging magazine ‘BOLD’, now the “International Journal on Ageing in Developing Countries.” His 2013 talk on University of California San Diego TV had just under 2 million views. Garrett has over 50 academic publications, hundreds of blogs, and ten non-fiction books. You can find his work at www.mariogarrett.com
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