Broaden your outlook as you grow older. Go climb a tree. Experience a new viewpoint. When I turned age 60, we lived in Africa. I climbed high up a marula tree and had a photo taken. I then sent it to my children with the promise that every 10 years, I would again climb a tree. When I became 70, I climbed a tree back home in Bluffton, Ohio. It was not quite as high as the African tree, but again, I had my photo taken for the family. At age 80, we were visiting a friend on a lake in Michigan. I climbed a tree outside their cabin. Well, anyway, I stepped about a foot and a half off the ground into a fork in one of their trees, hung on with each arm around one of the trunks, smiled, and my husband took a photo. Now at age 90, I went out to a tree near my Maple Crest retirement apartment. It was about 3 feet high, given to me by the Medical College of Ohio in thanks for the donation of my deceased husband’s body. With the help of the arms on my walker, I stood up and, you guessed it. I lifted one foot and put it ON the tree, fulfilling my promise to “climb” a tree every 10 years. My daughter, Greta, took the picture. When I turn 100 years of age? Maybe I will be planted UNDER a tree. (more…)
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Keep Saying “Yes!” by Christine Purves
Posted in Change, Retirement, Seniors, Travel, tagged Africa, Botswana, Hugh Masekela, Michigan, Ohio, Retirement, South Africa, tree climbing, yes on May 7, 2010| 4 Comments »
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