Years ago, I interviewed a 100-year-old man who lived to be 104. He wore thick glasses and walked with a cane, but his mind was sharp and his smile was warm.
“So!” he said emphatically. “You want to know how I got to be this old.” I’ll never forget his words, and he said them this way – almost verbatim: “One, I have two oatmeal cookies for breakfast. Two, I drink a glass of red wine with my dinner each night. Three, I enjoy a good cigar every now and then.”
Then he peered intently over his coffee mug to make sure I was paying attention. “The last is the most important: You should never get to the top of one mountain until you see the next one you want to climb.”
This blog site is my most recent ‘mountain.’
Latest posts from My Blog
From Scrooge McDuck to HAL 9000: When Numbers Become Too Big to Imagine
From Scrooge McDuck’s mountains of money to HAL 9000’s artificial intelligence, a lifetime of watching numbers grow beyond imagination leads to one fascinating question: What happens when technology advances faster than our minds can comprehend?
Could ‘elderly’ hearing problems be caused by any of the following?
A friend just sent me an article about how many vaccinated elderly patients have developed progressive hearing loss. I don’t want to accept either of those labels (elderly OR going deaf), so I have come up with fifteen additional reasons. Can you think of others? Bad cell phone reception (I HATE them) TV personalities speaking…
I’ll always be a tree-hugger.
Grounding (or ‘earthing’) has been around for a long time. Shaman’s, Celts, Native Americans, yogi’s and others have believed that it is important to connect with the Earth. For years it’s had a kind of ‘airy-fairy’ aura about it, but more recently, holistic health practitioners, meditators, and even some medical professionals have begun to advocate…
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
