Old

• bifocals
• black and white movies are best, silents especially
• can be quite snarky
• cats are the best company I know
• classical music and jazz standards much appreciated
• comfort comes first
• creaky joints
• crossword puzzles always need solving
• diminished sex drive, or maybe I'm just prude
• feeding of birds
• fondness of floral patterns
• frequent disorientation
• frugality
• houseplants are friends, too!
• library card is a prized possession
• manners and etiquette are not to be forgotten
• multitudes of home remedies
• perpetually cold
• public broadcasting put to good use
• quite superstitious at times
• reminiscence
• resentful and reluctant towards technology
• ridiculous hobbies
• skilled hands, good for knitting
• tea, of course!
• terrible eyesight and hearing
• wearing of frumpy clothing, wool cardigans particularity

Young

• adventures everywhere to be had
• avoidance of responsibility and conflict
• believing in impossible things
• boundless curiosity
• breakfast cereal and other novelties
• coloring-books, not always within the lines
• dancing everywhere and always
• eagerness to learn and try new things
• easy excitement and enthusiasm
• everything is absolutely lovely
• falling in love with everyone I meet
• free association
• imagination is most important
• love of nonsense and fantasy
• much affection (sometimes too much)
• naïveté, and an absence of cynicism
• need to be nurtured
• Peter Pan syndrome (helpless, I'm sure)
• playing dress up
• preoccupation with games
• quite sensitive, prone to emotional outbursts
• restlessness and a complete inability to stay still
• romantic idealism
• security blankets, quite literally
• separation anxiety
• sincerity
• still rather small
• timidness
• tree climbing and other outdoor shenanigans
• unbelievably optimistic, somehow
• wonder and amazement

There's much weariness in my being, as if I've lived a thousand years, but miraculously my heart always finds room too grow and renew itself.