Image by Esther Lin - all elbowsI wonder what systems and styles or whatever I will be training in as I get into my twilight years. Helio Gracie (above) is truly an inspiring individual and still gets on the mat and trains in his 90's! Not only does he still train and occasionally teach, but he is a true picture of good health.How many people do you know who can not only function well physically
How to Fight the Effects of Aging and Old Age
By: Ronald Godlewski
Many of us believe that before we hit that magic age of thirty, we think that we are invincible, that we are different than everyone before us and we will beat the odds, live forever, and do so in good health. But unfortunately, [...]
Motorcycle Riding - Old Age And TreacherySport Rider Magazine - Oct 31, 2008But as the rest of our six-bike freight train quickly stacked up behind the cruiser pilot, he remained planted in the middle of the lane, ...
Britain's oldest virgin has just celebrated her 105th birthday."Her"? So it's not Sir Cliff? Oh.She says no sex is the secret to her long life.It'll certainly make it feel longer.Clara Meadmore says going without the nookie has been the reason she has lived so long.That's bad new for Paris Hilton. She may be on borrowed time already.Clara says she is proud of remaining a virgin.Well, don't coun
How to Fight the Effects of Aging and Old Age
By: Ronald Godlewski
Many of us believe that before we hit that magic age of thirty, we think that we are invincible, that we are different than everyone before us and we will beat the odds, live forever, and do so in good health. But unfortunately, [...]
The Fear of Old Age: Growing Pains!
The Fear of Old Age and those Growing Pains is very closely related to and influenced by three or more of the other Great Fears. The Fear of Poverty, the Fear of Illness and the Fear of Death all have a place in the birth of this Fear. All have [...]
Lately I seem to find everywhere lots of articles about the imminent dismissal of Java and its replacement with the scripting language of the day or sometimes with other compiled languages.
No, that is not gonna happen. Java is gonna die eventually of old age many many years from now.
I will share the reasoning behind my [...]
As you get older, you tend to slow down the pace of your entire life, including how much exercise you get. But considering all the health risks that are a natural part of old age, it may be more important than ever to increase the level of physical activity in your daily life as you [...]
How to Fight the Effects of Aging and Old Age
By: Ronald Godlewski
Many of us believe that before we hit that magic age of thirty, we think that we are invincible, that we are different than everyone before us and we will beat the odds, live forever, and do so in good health. But unfortunately, [...]
Inevitably, time catches up with cats. Should your pet survive beyond seventeen years, it is doing very well indeed. Very few reach one score, although the longest record at present stands at thirty-four years achieved by a tabby queen from Devon. Certainly cats tend to live longer than dogs – the oldest recorded dog reached twenty-seven years and the majority do not pass sixteen years.Named Lucy passed at the fine old age of 20 years.Old cats need special attention and understanding. After years of faithful companionship, it would be a churlish owner who did not give a thought to coping with feline geriatrics.Venerable cats change physically and frequently become rather thin. This may be accompanied by a change in appetite, with an increased or decreased demand for food. They may become
Street Smart Sukhumvit is depressed. And it's all got to do with three things: the rain, an old lady and the whole freakin' world.This is what happened:So there I was, deeeeeep inside Sukhumvit 39, coming out of a condo and grumbling under my breath because it had rained earlier ("It's only February, for Pete's sake~!! It's not supposed to rain yet~!! I haaaate getting my feet wet~!!").The condo's friendly security guard approached me and asked, "Do you need a TAXI?" I said yes, and he asked, "Would you mind if an old lady rides with you?""EH~?!" I didn't expect that. "What old lady?"He pointed to the guardhouse where a tiny old woman was sitting. "She needs to go to the pak soi (mouth of the soi) to the main Sukhumvit Road. Can she come along?""Oh, sure!" I said. He thanked me profusely a
Gah! It’s so troublesome to write something after a week. Not because you don’t have any topic, but you have so many that its extremely confusing. So I am just going to get into it, dive straight in and sort everything out later. Considering Christmas and New years being probably the most hot topics around, we aren’t going to read about that over here(for a while).But I may use some small references regarding Christmas here and there. Old age. I was thinking about it a few days ago… everyone has pondered on this question, “What will I be when I am old?” Usually they refer to careers, I took it in the literal sense… when I am say, 80, how will I behave… Turns out it’s not a pretty picture. Let’s compare today’s older generation with the future one so you ca
Your house plants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.
Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
You watch the Weather Channel.
Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.
You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.”
You’re the one calling the police because those damn kids next door won’t turn down the stereo.
Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
Your car insurance goes down and your payments go up.
Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM.
Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) British novelist and short story writer
The trouble with satire is that sometimes it can be just too close to the truth.
Australian readers will be well familiar with Clarke and Dawe. For the rest of us, here's what may be a first look...
Earth-centred news for the health of air, water, habitat and the fight against global warming
As people grow in age from child to youngster their diet increases as they have a fast growth rate. As they grow from youngster to old age their growth stops and thus it becomes necessary for them to have control on their diet. Generally people do not have control on their diet with increasing [...]
“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.”
Philip Larkin (1922 – 85) English poet and novelist
“Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb,
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.”
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) British poet
“You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.”
Julian Barnes (b. 1946) British writer
“God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.”
Anonymous (Quoted on BBC Radio Quote ... Unquote 2000)
I would like to quote here a poem by Ted Hughes.Old Age Gets UpStirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticksAn eye powdered over, half melted and solid againPondersIdeas that collapseAt the first touch of attentionThe light at the window, so square and so sameSo full-strong as ever, the window frameA scaffold in space, for eyes to lean onSupporting the body, shaped to its old workMaking small movements in gray airNumbed from the blurred accidentOf having lived, the fatal, real injuryUnder the amnesiaSomething tries to save itself-searchesFor defenses-but words evadeLike flies with their own notionsOld age slowly gets dressedHeavily dosed with death's nightSits on the bed's edgePulls its pieces togetherLoosely tucks in its shirtOld is such a stage of life when you have satisfaction of having lived a full life but at the same time prospect of growing old is frightening. This is because of the state of loneliness associated with old age and the unconcerned look in the eyes of others towa
I would like to quote here a poem by Ted Hughes.Old Age Gets UpStirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticksAn eye powdered over, half melted and solid againPondersIdeas that collapseAt the first touch of attentionThe light at the window, so square and so sameSo full-strong as ever, the window frameA scaffold in space, for eyes to lean onSupporting the body, shaped to its old workMaking small movements in gray airNumbed from the blurred accidentOf having lived, the fatal, real injuryUnder the amnesiaSomething tries to save itself-searchesFor defenses-but words evadeLike flies with their own notionsOld age slowly gets dressedHeavily dosed with death's nightSits on the bed's edgePulls its pieces togetherLoosely tucks in its shirtOld is such a stage of life when you have satisfaction of having lived a full life but at the same time prospect of growing old is frightening. This is because of the state of loneliness associated with old age and the unconcerned look in the eyes of others towa
Phone Boy recently went on his first “date”.
This officially hails the beginning of my middle age, and my threats of not allowing him to date until he’s 30 have obviously fallen to the wayside. The date itself was fairly innocuous, the lucky girl was his girlfriend , of the Honeybell Home Dead Phone Battery fame.
Phone Boy is good however, and began by simply asking me if he could go see a
