Aging Gracefully
Articles and posts regarding aging and being a senior in a way that’s more enjoyable and / or healthy.
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October 11, 2022 – Opinion: Are Workers Really More Responsible For Inflation Than Arbitrary Energy Price Increases and Climate Change?
…to be clear, I wouldn’t mind being an investor making a quick killing off a commodity price change, or someone making even close to hundreds per hour. Nope, be fine with me 😊 What is not fine, is pinning inflationary problems on….
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October 09, 2022 – Post Surgery : Balancing My Daily Rebalancing Expectations
I was so busy struggling day-to-day for so many weeks – medically, chores ( baths, eating ), art pick ups & deliveries and fitful starts at painting – I never realized I’d ended up so tired + nearly a week’d gone by without blogging!
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October 01, 2022 – Opinion: Careening Screaming Laughing Round the Curve and Guardrails America ( and the world ) is Entering Adulthood – Related Links I’ve Read
…it’s my opinion humanity will soon decide to survive or not. And that we can only decide to survive by also deciding that means all of us.
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September 17, 2022 – Post Surgery : Continuing With Antibiotics
Having to resume antibiotics as one of my surgeons got lab results on a mucus sample from my surgery showing growth – so am blessedly kicking back til some blood clotting and fatigue fade away again 🙏
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September 15, 2022 – I Can Breathe!! Slats Removed!!
A small but big-to-me miracle today — Sheila and I drove out to see one the surgery doctors and had my silicone strips from my nose removed!
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September 13, 2022 – 1st Exercises After Surgery : Every Movement is a Stretch
Just a quick update since my breathing surgeries last week — I’m doing better each day, even with half my face bandaged, lol!
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September 10, 2022 – Using Rib Cartilage For My Nose Reconstruction
Last surgery pic I’ll show I think; wasn’t even aware of the cut til today, lol!
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September 09, 2022 – 1st Day After Surgery
Won’t say much ‘cept to point out I didn’t get today’s post out til after noon, lol!
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September 08, 2022 – Surgery Day
If / when able will add an update to this page in the afternoon. Thanks for all y’all’s good wishes, I’m holding them close to me ☺️🙏❤️
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September 07, 2022 – Pacing Myself to My September 8th Operation on My Breathing Channels – Video: One of the Reasons Why
A lot has changed in half a century medically, and my current surgeons’ current skills and tech and manner convinced me it was worth another try 🙏
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September 06, 2022 – Pacing Myself to My September 8th Operation on My Breathing Channels – Ordering Meds, Gathering Supplies, Exercising Slowly But Strongly
Yesterday, Labor Day, time got away from us, mixing down time watching Morse, the late 80’s predecessor to Masterpieces’ equally engaging Endeavor, plus finalizing forms for our before-dawn checkin for surgery.
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September 04, 2022 – Pacing Myself to My September 8th Operation on My Breathing Channels
My 2 surgeons are very experienced in reconstructing airways at all levels of complexity ( including my age ) and I’ve been diligent as I can pre-habiltating ( vs only rehabilitating )….
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September 03, 2022 – I Sometimes Yawn During Exercise and I LOVE It!!!
I wanted to find out if the main reason “I” felt I was yawning – tension release / relaxing – especially during more intense-to-me routines, and some strength sets I deliberately do slower than demo’d, was on track. And it is! Among lots of other good reasons…
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September 01, 2022 – Review: Yesterday’s SilverSneakers Live Dance-Strength Class on Facebook ( now available as a free video )
I’ve arranged my screenshots of SilverSneakers’ live dance / strength 30 minutes circuit class to reflect how these combo-circuit classes typically are structured – with alternating rounds of movement, rest and strength.
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August 31, 2022 – SilverSneakers Goes For a Record Live Dance Class Attendance on Facebook 1:30 PM CST – TODAY!!
..being able to do this go-for-the-record attendance live dance class really appeals to us; should be fun and healthy 🙏 Can’t beat that! ❤️
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August 16, 2022 – Me, 1st Full Day Without a Beard for “Awhile”
Sheila patiently re-posed me for a re-take of my no-beard pic today….
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August 15, 2022 – Me, Last Day With a Beard for “Awhile”
A very quick post this evening – had my pre-op appt with my surgeon for a slew of breathing related fixes he and my my ENT dr / surgeon will do together..and this is me with my several-years long beard I’ve sported 😊
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August 13, 2022 – My 1st Back to Back SilverSneakers 45 Minute Zoom Classes : Circuit and Yoga!!
What’s particularly nice and that I really like about how SilverSneakers has their class info organized, is that one can do nearly any kind of search top of their class listings page….
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August 11, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Riding the Tide of a Busy Day
Had wanted to write about a well-deserved much-needed Go Fund Me for a gallery I’m showing in ( Primal Gallery ), but….
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August 09, 2022 – Revisiting #FestivalBeachFoodForest with Max the 9-Year Old
And while Max helped with some watering, I asked Karen about a bright berry cluster in a small tree the morning light was glowing on —
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August 01, 2022 – Happy Birthday To Our Oldest Grandchild!!
I often write about our youngest grandchild, the now-9 year old, but we have four other grandchildren, and our oldest turned 28 today!
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July 27, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Fading Sunset #AustinTexas + The #BrokenwoodMysteries!
After watching the latest Brokenwood Mysteries installment out of New Zealand with Sheila, I didn’t have much time for more than a quick shot of the last of today’s sunset, with temps finally just below 90 after another 102 degree day.
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July 26, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Grandchildren with Grandparents, Day 2
Another very short post to go with another very long hot day, lol! Sheila and the 9 year old and myself went out early, though temps were already striking near 90, and got a short walk in feeding the squirrels and birds.
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July 25, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Grandchildren with Grandparents
It’s been a long hot but good day — It’s also very late this evening, so am simply posting we had a full day of chores and the welcome return of our youngest grandchild from an extended trip….
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July 23, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Sheila’s New Dress!!
By a little after 8 this evening the temps had dropped a bit below 100 finally, and I got Sheila to model her new dress for me on the balcony! I told her the Fitbit on her wrist worked perfect with the whole effect!
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July 16, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Downloading Last Year’s Photos, and Discovering Memories
There’s often a space, often noticed, where life is more like what you’d like it to be ❤️
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July 15, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Finding Peace Under the Crushing Weight of Today’s Times
There’s often a space, often noticed, where life is more like what you’d like it to be ❤️
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July 02, 2022 – #CrescentMoon at Sunset, Austin Texas
I hoped, in yesterday’s post, I might be able to post this sunset off our balcony – a crescent moon floating above the sea of crimson orange air – and am so glad I could 🙏
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July 01, 2022 – Our First Pigeon at Our New Place Shows Up for Food, Atop Our New Ivy Screen
Sheila and I’ve gotten to experience several 1st’s since moving into The LadyBird here in Austin, so it was specially nice when two 1st’s joined to make a memorable image through our window –
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June 29, 2022 – Someone Very Glad to See Us Today!
As per yesterday, still very exhausted feeling, but Sheila & I both beginning to also feel the move-fatigue to our new place is slowly being replaced by relief fatigue….
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June 25, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : A Spot of Oasis in My Life From the Heat Outside
Though we again went out in the morning for chores, and held them down to groceries and some exercise, the heat finally got to me today.
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June 24, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Doing Chores, Exercises, Eating Well and Hanging in There in 100+ Degree Heat
It’s a minute to ten, past my bedtime for all practical purposes, lol! But had to get this short post out so ya’ll will know us 70+ year olds ( wife & I ) are – so far – successfully pacing through a 2nd month of all time record high temps here in Austin.
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June 17, 2022 – Packing My Birthday-Bird Gift From a Decade Ago For Its Ride to Our New Place – #TheLadyBird #AustinTexas!
Our oldest grandchild gave me this ever cheerful wonky fun turquoise bird nearly 10 years ago or so. I couldn’t help but feel, seeing it resting comfortably in the trunk of your car, it was really glad to be joining Sheila and myself at our new place, The LadyBird, here in Austin!
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June 16, 2022 – Pushing Through a Transition Week With A Glorious Evening Image to Guide Us Through
Sheila & I took a brief sunset walk after another full day of sorting / cleaning at the old place, and sorting / setting / enjoying the new one 😊
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June 15, 2022 – 1st Day into Night in Our New Abode
To celebrate, we took a slow short walk down along a bit of the water’s edge along Lady Bird Lake. Kinda fitting seeing as we now live at The Ladybird, lol!
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June 07, 2022 – A New Beginning For My Wife & I
Sheila and I signed the paperwork for our new apartment in a new 55+ development along Lady Bird Lake that still has 3 connected bldgs in-progress. They form a U-shape around an existing tower that’ll be stripped down inside and out and, two or so years from now….
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May 19, 2022 – Hardest / Best Part of My Strength Class Recently – Releasing Myself a Smile
It’s nearing 8pm and I’m trying to apply an exercise lesson our online SilverSneakers instructor, Michelle, brought up a few times today – smile 😊
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May 14, 2022 – My 1st Classical Stretch Workout with Miranda Esmonde-White ( via YouTube ) in Many Months!
Though similar to SilverSneakers’ classes, Miranda’s classes focus largely on making the fascia network in our bodies more fluid. Some movements are very similar, but more extended, dance-like, reflecting Miranda’s ballerina and dance background!
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May 06, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Some Days Are Meant To Be Simple
I struggled what to write tonight for tomorrow’s post. Not because the day was too complicated; but because it wasn’t.
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May 01, 2022 – Slept a Lot, Painted a Little, Getting Better! #AgingGracefully
A sleepy multi-nap afternoon, one 15 minute exercise early, and a touch of painting was my day, lol!
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April 30, 2022 – I Knew I Was Getting Sick! But the Common Cold?!?
Very short and sweet – I’m sick! But with the common cold, lol!
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April 29, 2022 – 3rd Lay-in for New #AcrylicDiptych, Formerly Titled “Seeing” and Now Titled “Eyes of the Universe”
I like to read biographies of artists – Joan Mitchell Lady Painter, Helen Frankenthaler Fierce Pose, Monet – not so much for techniques any more, but for how they thought creatively. What they struggled with, what excited them and meant something dear to them.
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April 28, 2022 – Sometimes It’s Great To Come Across Another Artist’s Thoughts On Art When Worrying ’bout My Own, #Monet
I like to read biographies of artists – Joan Mitchell Lady Painter, Helen Frankenthaler Fierce Pose, Monet – not so much for techniques any more, but for how they thought creatively. What they struggled with, what excited them and meant something dear to them.
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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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