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I'm not a photographer

I'm not a writer

I'm not an art critic

I'm not a movie star or singer

I'm not a scholar

But I am a human being who respect all life and also admire it.

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D., ABPP

Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Gerontology and Faculty Fellow in the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The author of over 160 refereed articles and book chapters and 16 books (many in multiple editions and translations), her most recent popular work is The Search for Fulfillment (January 2010, Ballantine Books). She also writes for the Huffington Post's "Post 50" blog and is a frequent commentator on local, national, and international media outlets and has appeared on the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Dateline, CNN, Olbermann, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, USA Today, and Time.com. Her research covers a wide range of topics related to adult development and aging, including personality development through midlife, contributors to successful aging, predictors of memory performance, and the relationship between physical health and sense of personal identity. She teaches large undergraduate lecture classes and maintains an active lab of graduate students whose research focuses on life-span development, dementia, and functional abilities in older adults. Recipient of a 2011 Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association, she is the winner of national and campus teaching and advising awards. She has served in executive board and advisory roles in regional and national professional organizations including the American Psychological Association (Council of Representatives and Board of Educational Affairs), the Council of Professional Geropsychology Training Programs (Chair), the Society for the Study of Human Development (past President), the Gerontological Society of America (current Past Chair, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section), the National Association of Fellowship Advisors (Executive Board member), and Psi Chi (past Eastern Regional Vice President), and the Society for Emerging Adulthood (Founding Board member), as well as a member of numerous task forces and advisory panels at the national, regional, state, and campus levels. In June 2017, she began her term as President of the Eastern Psychological Association and as Member-at-Large on the Board of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she taught large undergraduate psychology classes and directed the Commonwealth Honors College's Office of National Scholarship Advisement. Currently, she serves as the Scholarship Coordinator for the University of Massachusetts President's Office. She grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. and graduated from the University at Buffalo. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral respecialization program in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Whitbourne lives in Framingham, Massachusetts with her husband and has the distinct pleasure of having raised two daughters who chose to follow their mother's profession. Her older daughter, Stacey, a developmental/health psychologist, is a Program Director at VA Boston where she is the coordinator of the Million Veterans Program. She is also a co-author on her adult development text. Her younger daughter, Jennifer, is a staff psychologist at MIT Medical Center. With hobbies that include knitting and frequent participation in aerobics classes, she practices what she preaches about the value of aging and both mental and physical exercise.

Cuando te Veo a los Ojos

Cuando te veo a los ojos, se rompen las cadenas que me atan al abismo. Se libera mi alma para alcanzar la tuya. Quisiera decirte que te amo en tus labios provocadores. Acariciar tus bellos y…

Mi Poema: Cuando te Veo a los Ojos...

In all things seen and unseen, there's a fine line in between for everything. Madness and Sanity, Love and Hate, Sensuality and Sexuality, each according to each individual's perceptions.

Then, when much is too much? or, little too few? Is society able to establish these boundaries? Is it possible to accommodate everyone?

If the answer is no, not everyone can be accommodate, then are the rights of the ones left without say wrong? Just because a majority say so?

Take history as a metric. Let's say 500 years ago, a person with epilepsy would be considered a mentally disabled person. How about 50 years ago. Would the color of the skin be a negative factor in human behavior? How about today, is gender any relevant to the human condition?

What about 50 years from now, would the human elderly be treated better or worse than today. Mind you that in this time there are very little and few benefits or laws that protect these population.

Then let's examine our original hypothesis. Where do we put, cut, or establish the fine line?

Can anyone say?

Consider the war between Athenians and Spartans. Each would say that they had the answer, but did they?

No one can stop or detain evolution. Things that are meant to happen will happen and there's nothing that humanity can do about it.

Draókos (The Black Dragon) Psicofilosofía Urbana es (c)1980 Copyright 1980 ICP

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (at Crofton, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdMl1YDhcTbtrJDswdImgbhrYGNb-G8CWVNL40/?igshid=1pzv5lurs8p3d

La sensualidad de la mujer en si no hay por que mostrarla, pues de ella se desborda naturalmente sin tener que mostrar nada en lo absoluto.

Ella no tiene que hacer nada, es su naturaleza, su sensualidad es sobrenatural, por lo que no entiendo porqué los medios de comunicación masiva se empeñan en utilizar la sensualidad de la mujer para explotarla como si fuera una cosa, un objeto de manipulación.

La mujer es un ser humano extraordinario más sensible que el varón, es compasiva, inteligente, delicada y sumamente fuerte a pesar de lo que diga la sociedad discriminante.

The sensuality of the woman itself does not have to be shown, because she naturally overflows without having to show anything at all.

She doesn’t have to do anything, it’s her nature. Her sensuality is supernatural, so I do not understand why the mass media are determined to use the sensuality of women to exploit it as if it were a thing, an object of manipulation.

The woman is an extraordinary human being more sensitive than the man, she is compassionate, intelligent, delicate and extremely strong despite what the discriminating society says.

Draókos (The Black Dragon) Psicofilosofía Urbana es ©1980 Copyright 1980 ICP