The Portland Aging group, Aging in Enlightened Society, is a social group for those who are experiencing aging – whether it be turning 40 or 70.

Before our meeting at 3 pm on Monday, December 16, please watch His Three Daughters (2024) 1 hour 41 minutes, streaming on Netflix.  If you don’t have Netflix, you can join for a month for $6.99 with ads or $15.49 without ads.

In Azazel Jacobs’s charged drama, three sisters gather at their father’s New York flat to watch over him as he lies dying. Rachel (Natasha Lyonne), who lives there, spends her time betting on sports and smoking weed, which sets off prickly elder sister Katie (Carrie Coon) and puts Elizabeth Olsen’s more pacific Christina into the role of peacemaker. With the camera rarely leaving the apartment’s few rooms, it’s quite a theatrical setup – a hothouse of delayed grief, sibling resentment and fragile coping strategies. So it’s down to the three very different actors to power the film, and they do so magnificently, their characters’ shifting emotions touching and truthful. from The Guardian

Here is a longer review in the New York Times.

At our meeting on December 16, we could talk about what we could do or say now to make things easier for those we leave behind when we die.  

Please contact the Aging Group Coordinator for more information or to be added to the Aging group email list for announcements of time and place for our meetings and other occasional announcements.