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The Crow’s Feet Podcast: Life As We Age
Might Creativity Help Us As We Age?
Renaissance Woman Binnie Klein talks about her “vital nutrient”
Interviewing Binnie Klein for the Crow’s Feet: Life as We Age podcast was like trying to capture lightning in a bottle. The episode “drops” on Wednesday, April 9th.
Where to start? She’s a poet, a psychotherapist with a 40-year private practice in New Haven, Connecticut, a DJ on FM radio, a memoirist in print and audio, and lately, a songwriter. Binnie Klein is a Renaissance woman. At 74 she has reinvented herself time and again.
So what’s her secret to such a productive life that defies the downward gravitational force usually associated with aging?
Creativity.
“For a lot of creative people,” she told me, “ it (is) a vital nutrient, kind of like a vitamin.”
It might appear Binnie never missed a dose.
Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Binnie wrote her first poem, “Loneliness,” when she was eight. Her gift for poetry, and writing in general, was reinforced by her parents’ praise.
Music, another creative outlet for Binnie, ignited with the family’s piano acquisition when she was eleven. Lessons ensued, giving her…
