Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). Water Colour 1987. Tomas Brusell / Brusell Art.

My father was reading the memoirs of general Lewenhaupt and found the general, who gave up the Swedish Army at Bender 1712, as neurotic as himself.

My father has now passed away.

When I met the old guys of close families, Svend Höst, Bo Rodehn, Åke Cronvall and John Brusell I thought they seemed to be more cultivated than ever, as well as playful and comfortable absentminded. 
It's good to see that there are thrilling aspects of aging.
In Norway, Arne Naess was in the public eye, until 96, with his frequent media appearances and philosophical book publishing's in which he eventually went to Spinoza and interpreted him with the sharp eye of the falcon, finding the functional, the elegant and humoristic philosophical intentions 
It's fun to be one of many Norwegians who have read Arne Naess´ "Philosophy of Life" and "the free man" both books published in the end of the last millennium. 

Arne Naess was concerned with  reinterpreting the Master of Thinking - Baruch Spinoza, after many years of mountaineering in the mental company of Ludvig Wittgenstein, once stuck on a barren rock; no way out!. 
"Somehow I managed climb to safety", said Arne Naess.

The material body of Arne Naess is no more, but the soul of his is soaring at the heights of former Dalai Lamas and other spirits of the other world - the eternal now. 

Old Age, even death, might be interesting.