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Happy New Year

Monday Dec 31 2007

It’s the last day of the year. It is the time for resolutions to stop smoking, lose weight, be a better person and generally confront all the things we didn’t do last year. I was going through some papers this week and stumbled upon a few of my old ‘lists’ of New Year’s intentions from about 20 years ago. I am a bit embarrassed to say that my list today looks very similar to my list then—more exercise, better diet, more time for reflection and creativity, write my book, and relax. It’s not that I have done nothing in these areas for the past couple of decades, but overall I never seem to be satisfied and I often ‘lose’ whatever ground I seem to gain. To be sure, there are items on the ‘old’ list that have been handled: I don’t smoke and am extremely happy with my life and myself. Nonetheless, I still make my annual ‘list’ and if the past is any indicator, I will probably have the same list next year.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning
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Long-Term Commitments

Thursday Oct 18 2007

By Rick Fullerton | Bio

On Thanksgiving weekend (the Canadian version that happens in early October), my wife and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary with family and friends. Our children—now adults living on their own—arranged everything so all Phyllis and I had to do was arrive at the church hall at the appointed time. For those of you with younger families, there is hope! In anticipation of this event, we pulled out photographs and other mementos of our married lives together and recalled our earlier 25-year milestone celebration.

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Written by eldering at Health

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Fun

Monday Aug 13 2007

I had a lot of fun yesterday and last night. It was so much fun, I wonder why I don’t have this kind of fun all the time. I am distinguishing between happy and fun here. I am happy most of the time and enjoy what I am doing, but fun is somehow different. The day was spent playing golf with my buddies and then we all went to an Italian cooking school and spent the evening laughing and eating an incredible dinner. But what we did isn’t the source of ‘why’ it was fun.
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Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
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