Category: Aging

A new blog category examining the frightening, exhilarating processes of our inevitable aging.

So here I am, sitting in my ever-faithful study chair …

… re-reading Andrew Weil’s Healthy Aging.

I first bought and read the book back in 2005 …

… when I was a young 53.

And now that I am a young … 71, I am understanding Weil better than before.

For this first post in the new category, I’ll let Weil speak:

“To age gracefully means to let nature take its course while doing everything in our power to delay the onset of age-related disease, or in other words, to live as long and as well as possible, then have a rapid decline at the end of life.”

I like that Aging Agenda.

HR and I belong to a wonderful church here in Savannah, Asbury Memorial. Recently we lost our church’s matriarch, Miss Virginia, at 99 years of age. On Sunday we celebrated her long incredible life.

Miss Virginia sang in the church choir up until a month before her demise. She lived “as long and as well as possible.”

Healthy Aging to Us All!