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If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

— James A. Garfield

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On This Day In:
2015	Pretty Good So Far
2014	Still Learning?
	There Ain’t No Thing Like Me, ‘Cept Me!
2013	Little Lives
2012	Evolution
2011	Excellence At Performance = 10,000 Hours
2009	A Brief Poem…
	Crater Lake Trip with James

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well — making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor.

— Sheldon Solomon
Skidmore College
From Alice Park’s article: “Alzheimer’s From A New Angle“
In Time Magazine, February 22-29, 2016

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On This Day In:
2015	A Good Lad
2014	Who Dare Not Speak
2013	I Love Beer
2012	Trial By Jury
2011	First Class
	Got Knowledge?

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us.

― John Steinbeck
From his book: “Travels with Charley: In Search of America“

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On This Day In:
2015	Notes On My Nightstand
2014	Generations
2013	Two For One
2012	Seen And Heard
2011	The Hazards And Vicissitudes Of Life

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.

— Ann Landers

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

— Oscar Wilde

[Happy Birthday, Bro! We aren’t really getting old, but I believe we’ve forgotten most of what we used to know for sure. I suspect those wrinkles are just where all the smiles and laughter were. And, there are a lot more (wrinkles AND laughter) to come… Love ya — KMAB]

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On This Day In:
2015	Vision and Courage
2014	58 – Little Bro
2013	New Adventures And Old Hopes
	Caving In
2012	Bits And Bobs And Birthdays
	Always Hope
2011	Wet Snow And Long Hills

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

[Who’s that old man in your selfie? LOL!! — KMAB]

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On This Day In:
2014	The Writer’s Dilemma
2013	Just Paying The Rent
2012	Remembering…
2011	A Little Farther


Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional.

— Anonymous
This image was found at: http://funpicc.blogspot.com/2011/06/growing-old-is-inevitable-growing-up-is.html

[A birthday image / thought for my daughter, Rebecca.
We love you!
Mum and Dad]

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On This Day In:
2013	Happy Birthday, Rebecca
2012	Be Not Old
	2012 National League Western Division Champions!!!
2011	What Kind Of Work Do You Do?
2010	Another Loser… And Come November

I don’t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

— Will Rogers

[Happy Birthday, Bro! Hopefully, there are many more to come… Love ya, Kev — KMAB]

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On This Day In:
2013	New Adventures And Old Hopes
	Caving In
2012	Bits And Bobs And Birthdays
	Always Hope
2011	Wet Snow And Long Hills

At eighty, a man has experienced everything: love, and its ending; ambition, and its emptiness; several foolish beliefs, and their rectification. Fear of death is not very great; affections and interest concern people who have died and events of the past. In a cinema theatre when the show is continuous the spectator has the right to retain his seat as long as he wishes to do so, but actually, when the scenes he has already witnessed reappear on the screen, he leaves the theatre. Life is a continuous show. The same events take place every thirty years, and they become boring. One after another the spectators take their departure.

— André Maurois

[I don’t know… I’ve watched some movies fifty or more times. — KMAB]

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On This Day In:
2012	The Ruler
2011	Forever
2010	Just Cuz
	How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
	It’s Alive!! (3rd Pair Shoe Review)