It seems there are lots of emails poking fun at the way we age. Truly, I find them funny. Yet there is something stereotypical in assuming a loss of our "creative juices" as we age. The renowned French artist, Louise Bourgeois, (1911-2010) an example of continuing original creativity regardless of age.
As a younger woman, Ms. Bourgeois created monumental works in marble,
glass, latex, rubber, and metal. Her best-known sculptures are her
30-foot high spiders in a series titled, "Maman." 
(They
are tributes to her mother and the other women who worked in the family
business of repairing and reweaving valuable tapestries.)
When she was 88 years old (1999), she accepted a commission as the first artist to create a monumentally-sized work for the Tate Modern. The commission was to fill Turbine Hall - a room which is 30-feet high and 500 feet long. The installation was titled, "I Do I Undo and I Redo."
She
conducted Sunday salons for artists, had an exhibition of her textile
prints in Stockholm,and was working on a commission in 2010 for the
Maison de Balzac in Paris, before her death at age 99. Her last year, she made art to help finance the activism organization, Freedom to Marry. She also created for HIV and Act Up, believing that all people should be treated fairly and equally.
As one writer stated of her, "At 98, and
still working, she is a fierce woman who is original, curious,
intelligent, sensitive, generous, wildly imaginative, sexual and
uncompromising." All I can add is "atta girl," Louise!
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