Getting older has been a punchline for as long as anyone can remember. And while there
are plenty of jokes to be made about aging, it can also have some negative implications for how we see ourselves and others.
For writer Anne Lamott, aging has been a challenge, and a gift. "There is grace in not being able to see everything so clearly with all of its faults and annoying tendencies."
Lamott has been reflecting on growing older in her latest column for the
Washington Post, and shares some of those insights with
Consider This host Mary Louise Kelly.
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