AGING I RETIREMENT I INSPIRATION
Aging Well
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Face it. We all do it. Often we are obsessed with it. Sometimes we even enjoy it.
No, not that. Aging!
At 68 years old, I often look in the mirror and smile. I have come to accept my beautiful white hair that shines brightly with the sun’s light. I move well. My body treats me as well as I treat it.
This has not always been my viewpoint. In my forties, I kicked and screamed into the inevitable path we will all travel. In my teens, I had thought myself wild enough to never last that long but life has a funny way of laughing. At 40 years old, I was beginning not to want to live fast and die. I rather liked being on the earth . . . except for the wrinkles that were now appearing on my once smooth face.
By 50, I was still reinventing myself. I had spent many years creating art and was self-employed. I loved creating art. I loved my husband whom I had married at 23 years old. I remembered that at 23, almost all of my friends had married already and I was late to arrive there. That seems funny now.
At age 52, I wrote a book, 50 Secrets Humans Should Know that combined my art and love for dogs with the life tips I had learned from them. It must have met with others on their journey because it sold…
