TheBanyanTree: it's just numbers

[NancyIee at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/2/2010 5:02:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pyewood at pcug.org.au writes:

I plan  to finish this 1 goal I have set for myself.
>>> I plan to make 48  years old just a number, and not a limiting  one.
>>>



I am way past 48, and though I have stopped running, I continue to bike, or 
 for a slower pace, I walk. I gave up city life, and now walk my own 
acreage, or  along country lanes, cross country when I can, and stop to watch a 
little brook,  or new foals, or find bluebirds picking out a house on a fence 
post. I walk and  wave to neighbors, have company in the assorted dogs who 
venture out from  driveways to accompany me for a time.
 
I have as mentor, my grandmother, who learned to waterski  in her  upper 
sixties, and did so every summer for some time.  I also admired my  one-time 
neighbor, a sculptress, who, in her 80s, drove a hundred miles  each week to 
her sculpturing studio and teacher, with the"rock of Giberaltar" as  she 
called it, in the back of her van. She was thrown out of assisted-living  
places when she was in her hundreds for being too sassy,and then went to live  
with her son of 80 something and made his life a living hell, "straightening 
him  out." He learned to cook, and clean house, and became a rather good 
"wife" of it  all. My last visit to her, she complained that everyone in the 
world she knew  was already dead, and all the places she loved had been 
modernized, and so she  thought she should mosey off and see what else she could 
fix.
 
So, she did. at one hundred and six
 
I can hardly wait to see her sculptures there.