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Celebrate and appreciate aging!

We all age. Some of us even get old. But we don’t have to.

I was privileged to know Colonel Harland Sanders, the poster boy for late bloomers. He was successful not because he served up pressure fried chicken coated in 11 secret herbs and spices, but because he had a story to tell. Col. Sanders took that story on the road when he was 65 and continued to tell it so long as he had breath, dying of pneumonia at 90. And his story became his company’s story and remains part of our story.

Share your story here. Once it’s here, though, it belongs to the world. If you have copyright concerns, don’t post here, because you’re letting go.

This site was conceived to attract baby boomers and 60 plussers who have something to say, more to give, and a whole lot more living to do. But anyone can post. No age discrimination here! Energy and the ambition to try something new or different don’t have to be limited by the calendar. The half step or half second slower of a professional athlete still leaves 99% of us standing with our shoes nailed to the floor. Just because you have lost a beat from your prime doesn’t mean you can’t show the world your dust.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Life is action and passion

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."


 These often quoted lines were delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on Memorial Day, May 30, 1884 in an address titled "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire". He referred to the commitment of soldiers from North and South in the Civil War. The shame of aging is that we often let that fire die out. Our "time" is each day we are privileged to live and to enjoy a measure of physical ability and mental acuity. The judgment of having lived applies to every one of those days.


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