When former President Bush celebrated his 90th birthday with a parachute jump I wondered how smart that was? He can not walk but still likes jumping from planes. Then it occurred to me that being “mature” does not mean “dead”. Why not take “smart chances”… is it better to say “hey I’m 90 and in a wheel chair… better stop thinking about such things” or “why not!” At the end of the day you admire the man who decided to continue to dream such dreams and make them come true.
The 8 movie pack claimed to be a Mickey Rooney tribute… but only two movies had Rooney in it… but then I spotted that one of the movies was called “Two Women” the movie Sophie Loren won her Oscar for. It was worth $5.00 to see why… and she deserved it.
I received a bargain book catalog in the mail… I decided to buy stuff like I did in the old days before the internet. Bought a movie for $3.95… and if I had researched it online I would have known it wasn’t worth the $0.01 cent (plus $3.99 shipping it would have cost on Amazon).
449 miles on my bicycle this year so far.
If you liked the 1966 movie “The Professionals” take a look at the 1975 movie “Bite the Bullet”. Its about a 700 mile horse race and all through the movie people grow and mature and show good and bad sides of themselves. They care about the horses but at the same time are cruel… and the big winners are not those who cross the finish line first.
1938 was the 75th anniversary of the Gettysburg civil war battle, of the 8,000 living veterans approx. 1,800 made it to the reunion. Average age 94. In five years we will be 75 years from the D day landings. Somehow I never thought events from World War II would ever become so far back in time and in my lifetime would come the day that no one from that war would still be living. So I will simply say thank you to those still with us. I will recall and bless those now gone. And I will always honor those who stand for what they believe…
Just passing time on my 1921 LC Smith and thinking of the 93 years it has been in use.
Even when you have nothing good to say… it is good to say something. It may not be well said; but it is well done to say so. As the words flow kind thoughts grow and kind thoughts are like fertilizer for the soul. A big soul and large heart and all it took was one word followed by another.
