Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person
This is just another stop, and there will be another stop.”
Mr. Mekas also published a book of anecdotes and autobiographical images this year, “A Dance With Fred Astaire,” named for a Yoko Ono
and John Lennon movie in which Mr. Mekas and Mr. Astaire both make dancing cameos.
Helen Moses and Ping Wong knew exactly what they wanted: for Ms. Moses, it was her daughter
and Mr. Zeimer; for Ms. Wong, it was mah-jongg and the camaraderie it entailed, even if the other players spoke a different dialect or followed the rules of a different home region.
“In a way,” he said one morning in October, “everybody now can be Jonas Mekas.”
Mr. Ragazzi, 33, an art curator from Milan, was in town to assemble an exhibition of Mr. Mekas’s work at a fashion boutique on Madison Avenue,
and he was noting the resemblance between the diary-based films Mr. Mekas started making in the 1970s and the social media that followed decades later.
Mr. Jones, Ms. Willig and Mr. Mekas all spent their energy on the things they could still do
that brought them satisfaction, not on what they had lost to age.
But when the home went through renovations this year, Ms. Moses and Mr. Zeimer were moved to different floors.
