Seniors
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April 27, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Finding a Blogging Solution When My Days Are ( mostly ) Spent Exercising, Painting and Relaxing with Sheila
When I was younger, say even a 11 years ago when I started this blog, I had enough energy there really wasn’t a question of “enough time” or “energy” – I simply, correctly, assumed I’d be able to squeeze in the time to do all the things I wanted or felt I needed to do.
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April 15, 2022 – “A Day Within a Mountain Road of Days” : #NationalPoetryMonth
Wasn’t much a different day than many recent days surrounding me like fog filling both my ears from hearing past or future.
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April 04, 2022 – Finished My 1st SilverSneakers’ Online Live 45 Minute Yoga Class!
Earlier today ( Sunday ) I fully completed my 1st 45 minute class anywhere since I somehow brought on a now 4 month running case of planters fasciitis! Even if their 15 stretch classes are still my best bet for now, lol! I’ve progressed from store bought orthotics ( 2 variations ) to….
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April 02, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Flipping a Too-Full Day Into a Happy Ending
…a strangely continuing set of week long days overbrimming into each other….
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April 01, 2022 – April’s Fools Day, I’ve Been Fooled Enough All Year, Today I Know the Jokes Are All a Joke, lol! Only the Good is True and Dear
I’d planned on following up yesterday’s SilverSneakers post where I mentioned some yoga & creativity posts of mine from 2011 I’d share soon, and will, but am taking a short detour to lament April Fool’s Day.
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March 31, 2022 – SilverSneakers’ Online Live Classes ( 15 – 45 minutes ) 1 Month Later, Are Even MORE Super!!!
Barely a month ago, I posted about finally trying out SilverSneakers’ live online classes. They run 15 – 45 minutes in categories like strength, cardio, stretching, Zumba, Yoga, breathing, and much more! If I was amazed then, how easy the classes are to do ( or even leave if & when needed, without disturbing others…
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March 26, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : A Moment of Creativity ♥️
Blessed are the children, for they are us remembered, reminding us – we are still children also…. 💕
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March 24, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Now at 71, Another Perspective on Our Younger Selves ♥️
So what’s the point of all this, all these pictures and captions – where’s the perspective part in the title? Well, I’m reaching another one of those inflection points where I….
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February 24, 2022 – SilverSneakers’ Online Live Classes ( 15 – 45 minutes ) Are Super!!!
What’s one to do when the weather goes from near 90 to just below freezing in one day? Well, for me, paint of course, lol! But also, take advantage of a program Sheila & I’ve been exploring & experimenting with for a few weeks now. Only thing I feel different, now that I know SilverSneakers’…
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October 29, 2021 – Reblog : via Artnet – “Studio Visit: Painter Jo Baer on the Exercise Gear (and Chili) That Are Her Secret to Making Large-Scale Artworks at the Age of 91”
I’d saved the tweet below a few months (date shows it 1st was tweeted late last year, Nov 2020) thinking this would be an involved article with lots of interesting info on Jo’s process working with large-scale art. I was 1/2 right 😊 First, the part I got wrong was….
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October 22, 2021 – A Day With the 8 Year Old = Painting His Wooden Sword for Halloween, Circling the Trailhead to Barton Creek Greenbelt, Visiting Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Celebrating Veterans Art at the Old Bakery & Emporium, and Watching Big Hero 6 on Disney+!!!
This post is long on pictures, mostly because it was a long day from getting up to getting back to bed, lol! But what a good day it was ❤️ Here’s hoping this long post of pictures brings a similar good feeling! First up, above, is a special project Max has had his heart on,…
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October 19, 2021 – Turning 71 Feels Like Turning on the Spigots!
I’ve meandered around what to write for my birthday post this year, probably reflecting not exactly the chaos (though there’s enough of that, lol!) but the whirl of activity in my life right now – fitness activities, art – of all kind, family, and the stutteringly slow but certain shift from unbearable 6 month summer…
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October 12, 2021 – Reblog/Review : Long Covid Presentation with Patrick McKeown (YouTube)
My biggest take away from Patrick McKeown’s hour and a half YouTube presentation (a recorded Zoom session) is how gentle and doable it can be for most of us to go as slow as we need, and we’ll get there – “there” being better easier healthier breathing and as a result, the potential for a…
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October 02, 2021 – Final Review + Personal Reflections of “Breath : The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor
As per my 2nd (previous) posting of my reading and review-as-I-went of James Nestor’s, “Breath, the New Science of a Lost Art” – I wasn’t exactly sure where his a very savvy journalistic, yet personally involved, narrative was taking me : a surprise letdown (no), a mixed verdict (not exactly), a resounding affirmation (sorta), or…
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September 26, 2021 – Continuing Review of “Breath (nearly 1/2 read): The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor
Almost half way through “The New Science of a Lost Art”, I am in a swirl of conflicting interacting sometimes ecstatic emotions, much like how the author, James Nestor, has brilliantly presented the past (and often still present misconceptions) and present, with the still-developing future medical awareness – and confirmation – of how our most…
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September 21, 2021 – Initial Review of “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor
I’d been doing a day to day posting of a continuing study-sketch project with figures in a watercolor landscape and ran into a time roadblock – grandchild, groceries, fitness (walking, yoga, Essentrics), picking up line art to practice-paint at my printer, etc 😊 and wasn’t able to wiggle any more time to work on that…
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September 07, 2021 – “Figures in a Landscape Study” – I’m Calling it Done! (but I know it’s not)
About two weeks ago, I posted, “Tiptoeing Back Into Art with Prep For Potential Watercolor, Mother and Child” – about a new watercolor on paper I’m now calling, “Figures in a Landscape Study” – and I’m calling it done! Finished! Outta my sight! 😊 But, as per this post, I know, I know – deep…
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September 05, 2021 – Labor Day Weekend, What Labor Means to Me Today at Age 70+
I don’t think there’s much argument that the meaning of holidays and occasions, historically and personally, change over time. With that in mind, I’m giving myself a little latitude to just muse and ponder what “labor” means to me now as I approach my 71st birthday later next month. The effort itself, to rationalize my…
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September 04, 2021 – FREE Access Labor Day Weekend Offer via Essentrics by Miranda Esmonde-White
Entering the Labor Day Weekend this year, I’m gonna try for posting something short through the holiday 😊 Yesterday I got an email alert letting me know Miranda is posting her full 30 set workout, for free, on her website – https://www.essentricstv.com/classical-stretch-season-11-full-body-mobility Sheila and i picked Episode 5, Toning….
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September 01, 2021 – I’ve reached that point in my life where my daily starting goal is to be rested and healthy
Though we still walk, mostly very early in the morning, before the 100+ degree heat index and 70+ dew point and humidity kick in, lol! – and I rely on Sheila’s fitness tracker for our steps, mine having konked out – and, we’ve had to give up going to classes at several of our preferred…
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August 30, 2021 – Exercises We’ve Been Doing Since the Covid Resurge here in Austin
Though we still walk, mostly very early in the morning, before the 100+ degree heat index and 70+ dew point and humidity kick in, lol! – and I rely on Sheila’s fitness tracker for our steps, mine having konked out – and, we’ve had to give up going to classes at several of our preferred…
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August 28, 2021 – (Still) Experimenting Developing Figure Sketches, Tentative Title: Woman Walking Dogs 1
Wanted to place the new top image next to the two competing figure line art studies I’d included in a previous post, but the gallery shot compressed the side by side initial studies too much. This should still work though to show where I borrowed from both studies to make one I’m much happier with.…
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August 22, 2021 – Starting the Day with Dappled Light and Love
There was gonna be no pretense about the heat here in Austin today, not to mention the Covid resurge rivaling and in places surpassing the worth of the nearly two years of pandemic. But Sheila and Max and I set out before breakfast this morning, before the sun had shrank away the surprise morning clouds,…
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August 21, 2021 – Tiptoeing Back Into Art with Prep For Potential Watercolor, Mother and Child
I’ve a relatively short post today, mainly to show the culmination of some preliminary prep steps toward a new watercolor on paper, Mother and Child. Much can be made of course of my mom’s very recent passing and the effect that has had on the development of this image, and of course the title -…
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August 19, 2021 – Sometimes It Just Takes a Leap of Faith (with a little help)
My wife & I both take a lot of pleasure showing & teaching the 8 year old about the myriad mass of cultural and nutritional and miscellaneous details of living nowadays (sometimes as vs when “we” grew up, lol!) – but often enough, he likes to feel he’s returning the favor. He is almost always…
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August 14, 2020 – Reblog: Free Will Astrology, Libra
I showcased Rob and his column, Freewill Astrology back in April of last year, had been meaning to reblog one of so many positive weekly forecasts for my sign (Libra) that appealed to me, but I just gobbled them up and kept on going, lol! .. This week’s offering though is particularly helpful and encouraging…
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August 01, 2021 – Some Interruptions in Life are Blessings
Just back from an incredible trip to the Galapagos west of Ecuador, wife & I got the opportunity to have the youngest grandchild over. This is from our mid-morning walk in warm dappled light ❤️ I only wish I’d realized the value of this with our own children more fully…
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July 02, 2021 – Setting Up a Working Art Room, 1st Time Since Our Move, ie, 2+ Months!
Had hoped to put up another art reblog, I posted a couple really good ones recently I think, but also wanted to paint but couldn’t ’cause I’d have to taken over too much of the kitchen table for too long, lol!…Though I basically only moved a “lot” of boxes around, not really resolving my space…
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June 09, 2021 – Ending the Day With a Splash
I did do several things needing doing today, including finally uploading a new sports gift writing – Volleyball Kill Poster, but the day was capped by a surprise late afternoon visit from the 8 year old 😊
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June 08, 2021 – Walking in Barton Creek With My New Waterproof Hiking Sandals, Video and Pics
I hoped to build on yesterday’s video and think I did grab a decent one. The pic above is a screen shot from today’s video below –Unless I get lucky, I’m finding I like picking my own frame for the video’s thumbnail, since I often then use it for my header and my “featured image”…
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June 07, 2021 – Standing on a Rock in Barton Creek, Two Videos and a Selfie
Six weeks ago today I posted the two pics below…Quite a different scene from that in the above video after intermittent rains this past week, or the today’s 2nd video end of my post 😊
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June 04, 2021 – Some Days Are a Bust, Some Days Something Just Busts, Today was the Latter, Today was a Good Day
I got to thinking – maybe this was fate’s way of letting me know that yeah, it’s ok, good even, to keep count – but – I kinda got this down now. How to pace, daily. How to….
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May 31, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.2.2 – with Commentary
So many moments like this, in this and any story I’ve written, are echoes of actual individual, usually unexpected, experiences that not only imprinted themselves on me, like here..but simultaneously….
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May 27, 2021 – Beginning My 1st New Painting Since Before Our Move : Barton Springs Greenbelt Poster Series, Part 2
“…the blending going on with this smooth side is surprising and very promising in itself.”
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May 20, 2021 – Blowing the Day (sorta) in a Good Way
“…most the rest of the day, after mid-afternoon, was basically blown having the 8 year old over ❤️ So it’s only sorta blown, lol!…As has been the case in the past, I have a few shots of the day 😊 ”
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May 19, 2021 – Reflecting, and Getting a Grip on My Life Chores, lol!
Rain threatened or fell most the day, but left an imprint of beauty at the end of day…That’s how I’ve begun to feel after another long day….
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May 17, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Morning View Walk in a Light Rain
I left off our car at a shop we’re trying out near our place for numerous routine minor stuff and walked the short distance back. Luckily I had an umbrella….
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May 16, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, After a Light Rain Barton Creek
It didn’t rain heavy, but it did rain off and on steadily, lol! And more of the same, some heavier, might come our way next 3 days or so. There was just enough rocks still above water I could walk out and….
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May 15, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Bird Friends at Our Balcony
Granted, my real life observation of birds is relatively limited, I’ve never seen this before, one Cardinal feeding two! Wonderful really, so amazed at the joy of such a tiny slice of nature ❤️ To say it’s adorable seems nearly a cliche, but adorable it is!
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May 14, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, First Bird to Visit Our New Balcony Brings a Friend
Adding on to yesterday’s pic of our 1st bird visitor to our new balcony at our new location is, I assume 😊, the same little bird, but with a friend, her red feathered boy cardinal I think! The expressions, I think, are priceless!
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May 13, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, First Bird to Visit Our Balcony in Our New Location
A simple pic tonight, a simple mingling of sentiments – innocence, curiosity, hunger….
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May 13, 2021 – Our #1 Learned Lesson This Move : Number the Boxes and Make a Digital List!
“Such a simple idea, and Sheila says she’s either read or heard something similar, but only occurred to me this morning searching for random items I must’ve stuffed into a box with other stuff and now can’t find them – number each box, make a list of….”
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May 12, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, A Little Water in Barton Creek
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 12, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Map for Barton Creek Greenbelt Near Us via Google Maps
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 11, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Absorbing Nature
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 10, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Max Jumping Steps
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 01, 2021 – Beginning a New Month in a New Location on Our 40th Anniversary
Not quite what my wife and I had envisioned a year ago, anticipating our 40th wedding anniversary, but we’re grateful for where we’re at in our lives and still around 💕
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April 29, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid, 1st Look at the Roads and Woods Nearby
Sheila and I took a short 1/2 hour walk yesterday morning exploring some of the streets nearby. Maybe since we’re so near the green belt, most the streets and area around us is rumply and hilly-ish, not nearly as flat as where we lived before.
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April 27, 2021 – 1st Look at Barton Creek Greenbelt
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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April 25, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – First Full Day in Our New Location!
“I think the relief of being done with the move between locations really konked us out last night, lol! Slept little later than usual, made a leisurely healthy breakfast, sorted through….”
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