Thursday February 27, 2014 Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
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Lee Gold 2/27/14: Do you *feel* your head hair being black?
Or just look at your head hair now and then in a mirror?
If the latter (as I assume), how often a day?
(How soon do you think you'd notice if the mirror started lying?)
[I see myself in the bathroom mirror at least once a day. If my hair started turning white, I would notice. Unless the whitening started in back.]
I look at myself in a mirror perhaps once a week, and then I ignore my hair color, because I know it's been dyed reddish brown to please Barry.
"How old do you feel" for me depends on my level of energy and pain.
If I have enough energy to get stuff done, then I don't feel old.
[My energy level is higher; less energy wasted on tension and worry. My pain level is considerably lower; less muscular tension, allergy symptoms under better control.]
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Showing posts with label age. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Tuesday February 25, 2014 The University of Minnesota Law School has a hockey team called the Fighting Mondales. And a chess club called the Fighting Pawndales.
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Lee Gold 2/24/14: "Thursday February 20, 2014 My birthday. I don't feel 71 years old."
Congratulations anyway.
Now close your eyes and imagine: "How old does 71 years feel?"
I remember sometime in the mid-1950s some public service announcement trying to get people to re-imagine age. "What does a grandmother look like?" the nice man's voice asked, and showed a white-haired lady in a wheelchair, knitting.
Then it showed a busy woman, shopping. "This is a grandmother," the nice man's voice said, and showed clips of her busy life, ending up with her going to a party with adult children and teenaged grandchildren -- and her mother, who was the white-haired lady in a wheelchair.
When people have told me now and then, "You don't look [fill in the age]," I tell them, "This is exactly how I look at that age." (I turned 71 on October 7th, 2013.)
Reply: My head hair is black. My maternal grandfather's hair stayed black till the end of his life. But I first grew a beard at 26 or so; and it had some gray in it.
***From Facebook:
Tweets of Old
Girls, you had better hustle to keep pace with one 15-year old Maine maiden who drives oxen, studies Latin, and runs a saw-mill. VA1910
***From Twitter:
Susan Cosmos @SusanCosmos "The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different." - Peter Drucker #quote
***Comments of Comment:
Lee Gold 2/24/14: "Thursday February 20, 2014 My birthday. I don't feel 71 years old."
Congratulations anyway.
Now close your eyes and imagine: "How old does 71 years feel?"
I remember sometime in the mid-1950s some public service announcement trying to get people to re-imagine age. "What does a grandmother look like?" the nice man's voice asked, and showed a white-haired lady in a wheelchair, knitting.
Then it showed a busy woman, shopping. "This is a grandmother," the nice man's voice said, and showed clips of her busy life, ending up with her going to a party with adult children and teenaged grandchildren -- and her mother, who was the white-haired lady in a wheelchair.
When people have told me now and then, "You don't look [fill in the age]," I tell them, "This is exactly how I look at that age." (I turned 71 on October 7th, 2013.)
Reply: My head hair is black. My maternal grandfather's hair stayed black till the end of his life. But I first grew a beard at 26 or so; and it had some gray in it.
***From Facebook:
Tweets of Old
Girls, you had better hustle to keep pace with one 15-year old Maine maiden who drives oxen, studies Latin, and runs a saw-mill. VA1910
***From Twitter:
Susan Cosmos @SusanCosmos "The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different." - Peter Drucker #quote
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