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“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.”
– Ann Landers
Roadtrip: Go back to the garden! At the Woodstock Museum
The Woodstock Museum is a trip back in time. There are many exhibits featuring every aspect of the famous concert day, as well as the hippie movement, and the culture of the era. And that includes what we wore and what we drove. The Bethel Center For the Arts is a popular destination at the site of the original 1969 concert. They hold many public events all year long, especially music concerts. And some "old timers" still around from the Woodstock stage have returned for a sentimental "encore" for the fans. The Center's performance amphitheater (near the original concert site) holds about 15,000 people.
How we met after 60: ‘I gave our first date 8/10 – but I think she was expecting 10/10!’
Sue, 72, and Bala, 80, met online before their five-hour first date on Vancouver Island. On their third date, she moved in and never left. Sue kept herself “happy and busy” with work and family until, in early 2022, a friend convinced her to give online dating a try. “I had no interest in romance, but thought maybe I could meet a companion to go out for dinners with,” she says.
She immediately matched with Bala, a retired widower from Mauritius who lived on Vancouver Island. “He seemed academic, but he liked a glass of wine and played pickleball, which interested me.” The rest is history.
The father of aerobics still works out five days a week at age 92. Here are his expert tips
The concept of aerobics was pioneered in the 1960s by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, a physician and preventive medicine expert. He also coined the term with the release of his 1968 book “Aerobics.” Initially, Cooper was condemned for encouraging exercise. “In the 1950s and 1960s, exercise was considered dangerous,” Cooper said. “I was told the world will now be full of dead joggers. I got lots of tremendous criticism in the early years.”That opinion soon changed. Today, Cooper — now 92 — is still hard at work trying to encourage people to become physically fit.
We need a reverence revolution
Generally defined as having a deep sense of respect, reverence is all too often mocked and maligned. As a Christian, having reverence also means to have a healthy fear of God. It’s to see Him above all things and to recognize we’re here to serve at His pleasure and will. Yet culturally speaking, reverence is often dismissed as being stodgy or stiff. In fact, the rebellious of the “baby boom” generation practically launched their entire counterrevolution on the goal of being irreverent – and proud of it. “The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it,” once said Abbie Hoffman, a proud member of the “Chicago Seven” who collectively led the disruption of the Democrat National Convention in 1968. “I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”
‘Ten-minute miles are the new eight’: the senior ultrarunners pushing the envelope
Not only are more runners doing ultramarathons in their seventies and eighties, they’re also going faster. On a bone-cold morning in November, Wally Hesseltine, far from his cozy California home, was lying prone in southern Illinois – beside a trail of crushed gravel – his right knee bruised and bloodied. The initial 95 miles of the Tunnel Hill 100 footrace had unfolded with the swiftness of a fleeting breeze. Brisk, beautiful miles under a collage of crisp autumn foliage. The 80-year-old hadn’t fallen once. But the last five miles presented a particular problem. They were all downhill.
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