Dear Friends: Okay, I’ll have to admit, the year is racing by again! I plan to have certain things accomplished by a certain month’s time, but forget it! Is my office ship shape? Nope. Have all the household projects been accomplished? Nope. Yet, the days race by and I feel sometimes like a person with a huge untrained dog on a leash being pulled forward on a wild maniacal outing! The radio show (Third Age. com) is fun to do. We have so many interesting upbeat folks on it. Last week our guest didn’t show up by air time! A confusion of dates. So Peter (Dr. Brill), David (Debin) and I found ourselves doing the show without her. We mulled over the questions we were going to ask her and had a great time giving our own opinions. The subject was simplifying one’s life! A lot to cover in one hour wouldn’t you say? Days could be spent on the subject. I think one of the big problems is all the work you have to in order to simplify! Not to mention all the bad habits one must change. I saw a film that I really laughed out loud at least three times! It’s best described I’d say as a farce with poignant moments. It’s called “Little Miss Sunshine.” It is R rated I imagine because the grandfather uses the “F” word a number of times. He is really quite a character. I won’t tell you the plot, but there is no awful violence or explicit sex scenes or crude bathroom humor that I can remember. Really super acting about a nutty family, or as they would call them today, a “dysfunctional family,” which I suppose might cover most of us. Not quite to the film’s extent though. Each character is faced with a specific challenge, but they are all in it together for a very clever ride! Literally! We have had some very fine guests on our Third Age show. You can grab it wherever you are on the web, by checking out Third age.com, or Santabarbaranewspress.com. Adjust for time difference. We are live on Tuesday mornings at eleven to noon (California time), then repeated Tuesday eve at nine o’clock, and the following Saturday at one in the afternoon. If you have the time, you might want to check out Dr. Kornhaber’s site, grandparenting.org, and also Dr. Michael Galitzer’s site, Ahealth.com. There’s a lot of fascinating information for folks of any age on both. I have been preparing for a cruise! The first I have taken in many years. At first I thought I was going to have to do some clothes shopping for the trip, but I did what my friend Dawny does when planning for a big event. I Closet Shopped! I is amazing what one finds if we dig hard enough that will work for our planned event. Anyway, I will be on a cruise around Italy and Greece the end of this month and into October, and spending a couple of extra days on each end for more exploring! I am quite excited, but also a bit concerned about all the packing and luggage lugging (which I hate) and schedules that are to be met each day. I am going with my friend, Ellen. We went on a riverboat cruise in France many years ago and that was great fun. It definitely is a test as we get older to leave the comforts of home and plunge into the “unknown.” Though, of course when we think of it, we do that each day we wake up and get out of bed! When I was a teenager I discovered Ralph Waldo Emerson and his marvelous essays. Many years after my Grandmother died I found her copy of Emerson’s Essays and had a wonderful visit with her studying the parts that she had underlined when she was reading the book. It was a lovely experience. I wish I could find her copy once more to experience that again. We are bombarded by pollution, not just of the air we breath and the water we drink, but the huge amount of fearful mental pollution doled out to us daily on the TV news. So I would like to end this letter with a quote from that dear gentleman. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” Thank you, Mr. Emerson. Stay well and do all the things you know will help keep you that way! I’ll work on doing the same. Go well out there!
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