Memoirs

To all seniors – do you know how special and wonderful you are? Not just because of longevity, as that is decided by God, but you must have lived most of your life well or you would not have lived this long. Think about the warehouse of knowledge stored in your brain; the warehouse of love stored in your heart! You have the ability to begin each day with joyful curiosity.

When we were young, the telephone was in its infancy. Placing a phone call was pleasant and exciting. When you picked up the receiver, a lovely voice would say. “Number, Please” and she would connect you to that number! I treasure the true story about the little boy who was lonely and called the Information Operator and was comforted. It is too long to retell but she was his invisible friend to adulthood! It wasn’t until I was a pre-teen that phones appeared in homes. Now, many homes have several, and it seems that almost everyone has a cell phone. (more…)

In these troubling economic times, we wonder what we will be able to leave to our children. Will we be able to help them financially – give them a healthy inheritance? Will it be a small amount but one that they could build? Or, are our debts all that we will leave behind? Without a crystal ball, those questions remain to be answered.

However, we leave more to our children than material wealth. During our lives we work and live our lives in a way that keeps our finances strong. Without realizing it, how we live our lives also affects the lives and health of our children. We can leave them a legacy of a good immune systems. What we eat and how active we are will affect on them as well. Just looking at families, we see that in general, overweight parents have children who are overweight; slender parents usually have slender children. In overweight families, slender children show how the children can change their physical inheritance. (more…)