Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person<br />This is just another stop, and there will be another stop.”<br />Mr. Mekas also published a book of anecdotes and autobiographical images this year, “A Dance With Fred Astaire,” named for a Yoko Ono<br />and John Lennon movie in which Mr. Mekas and Mr. Astaire both make dancing cameos.<br />Helen Moses and Ping Wong knew exactly what they wanted: for Ms. Moses, it was her daughter<br />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.<br />“In a way,” he said one morning in October, “everybody now can be Jonas Mekas.”<br />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,<br />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.<br />Mr. Jones, Ms. Willig and Mr. Mekas all spent their energy on the things they could still do<br />that brought them satisfaction, not on what they had lost to age.<br />But when the home went through renovations this year, Ms. Moses and Mr. Zeimer were moved to different floors.
