Aging Gracefully
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February 09, 2021 – Excuse My Mess, I’m Sprucing Up Posts While “Trying” My Hand at Aging Gracefully, ie, I Need to Rest a Bit
Okay, I’m finally gonna admit, I’ve been trying to do too much 😊
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My Five Most Popular Posts in 2020 – Art (Arteza), Fitness (SilverSneakers), Photography (Richard Bernabe), Brokenwood Mysteries (AcornTV), Poetry (Aging Gracefully)
They’ve stood strong for the year, with posts dating from earlier in the year to very recently and I’m very grateful for that ❤️
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Tweets That Caught My Eye on Twitter – Regina Puckett @ReginaPucket #WriterPoetArtist
“Prolific, to describe Regina and her body of work, feels like saying the world is round and filled with astounding diversity of life….”
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Turned 70 Today – A Lot To Be Grateful For!
“Plus… The first family meal, outdoors, socially distanced from other folks, since the beginning of the pandemic!”
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Aging Gracefully During Covid-19 : The Seasons – and Hopefully The Times – Are A Changin’
“Doubts about whether 70 would actually be that major a marker for me, in terms of how hard and how far to push myself, held me back from developing thIs post though, until today!“
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Aging Gracefully During Covid-19 : Approaching 70 – Why It Feels Like the Speed Limit, lol!
“Doubts about whether 70 would actually be that major a marker for me, in terms of how hard and how far to push myself, held me back from developing thIs post though, until today!“
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Aging Through Covid-19, July 16, 2020 – Contemplations During the Virus Upsurge in Austin
Been a Bit Since I’ve Posted Much Anything About Our Covid-19 adjustments and challenges, my wife and I have just continued to clatter down the road of time, grabbing and doing the things we’re still able and allowed to do like two kids walking home from elementary school 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Update with SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Last week I post a more in-depth post, pictures & info, of the SilverSneakers Stability class Sheila and I take with Curt Holland at Gold’s Gym here in Austin, promising to update with a shot I thought I’d taken but, well, didn’t take, lol! That’s the shot above 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Recently I uploaded a SilverSneakers stability class post, talked a little about how good the class was, both in terms of social distancing and the instructor, but hadn’t been able to get some pics – but now I have! 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – The Earth is a Garden: My Most Viewed Image this Week @FineArtAmerica June 2020
I’ve been uploading my paintings since starting watercoloring (late Dec ‘19) recently by completed progression, with The Earth is a Garden one of the more recent. It’s a very pleasant surprise seeing it garnish this much attention vs some of the others I thought my be stronger received. One really never knows, which is just…
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Gardening our Balcony: Bird on Camera! ❤️
Just a very quick update post w/pics Sheila caught of one of her suitors, uh, bird visitors 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Gardening our Balcony: New Bird Bath and Feeder 🐦 😊
Some things are old, some new, some we got, some either our son or youngest girl and the grandson’ve given us, but nature accommodates most things in the wild, and luckily, so far, on our balcony 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Austin Covid-19 Warning re Hospital Bed Capacity by Mid-July 2020
Austin has quickly reached a crossroads of choices that may or may not prevent the city and area from having to shut down again.
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym Austin
1st Live Stability Class Since March! 🤸♀️ Well, ok, we didn’t do any handstands, lol! But Sheila and I did go to our first stability class since at least early March, if not late February on Monday morning!
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Coping with Changes: Masks, Fitness, Entertainment
Just a quick recap of things going on in our lives here in Austin as Sheila and I continue to adjust, adapt, and age through the changes created & necessitated by Covid-19.
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – My Paintings on Fine Art America
It’s a tough switch for me, picking up brush with paint vs picking up a camera. Switching from the exactness of line and light captured (even if framed by my eye) by a machine, exquisite as it is — to the amorphous shifting intangible (even if more powerfully felt) world inside me.
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – A New Series, Serial Series’
Am I a Serial Serialist, lol? 😊 Since “way” back, I’ve tried to create a series I can stick with, and obviously, didn’t. The topic would run out of juice. Or more accurately, I would. It was time for me to switch gears to another creative avenue, the way I switch art styles to stay…
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Aging Through Covid-19, June 04, 2020 – Resting From Too Much Exertion
Resting Up From Too Much Exertion, lol 😊 We had a rare patch of extremely nice weather for nearly a week here in Central Texas recently (now heading to near then above 100-107 next 10 days!) and I literally immersed myself in long fresh air walks and extra live online yoga and balance classes and…
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 27, 2020 – Personal Transitions During Stay-at-Home Distancing
Personal Transitions During Stay-at-Home Distancing No BIG in the typical sense of what I tend to think “big” life change/transitions are, but with no blog post for 5 or 6 days, I gave up figuring out the exact # of days, lol, I felt compelled to say a little something.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 19, 2020 – Staying Fit with Walking, Protein and Sleep
Within the growing info getting my attention re the value of walking and stretching and sleep, three pieces of the puzzle have merged into more concrete actionable time on my part —
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 11, 2020 – Ruminations on a Slow Saturday
Ruminations for a slow Saturday Well, I’ve been wanting to slow down, and today I did (slow as I already was going, lol! 😂)
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 10, 2020 – Good Friday
Blessings to all of any persuasion, religious or otherwise 💕
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 09, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
it was a really good opportunity to find an image I liked, and reproduce it in my own style, picking up pointers so to speak by virtue of simply studying the image to be able to transcribe it!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 08, 2020 – FaceTime Fun With Grandson
Sometimes the remedy a long day alone at home for myself and Sheila is just a little something special. Here’s our 7 year old after reading a chapter from comic novel Dog Man to us 💕
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Aging Through Covid-19, March 30, 2020 – Series Intro Post
Though generally healthy, but in the target age group for most vulnerable, Sheila and I had early on began practicing social distancing. We also ate well, better even. More veggies. More sleep – can’t tell you what a blessing that’s been for me, lol! 😊
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New SilverSneakers Exercise Streaming Opportunity on Facebook Monday 03.23.20 10:30 CST
I’m glad SilverSneakers has already added/scheduled a followup to this week’s initial live class stream – very much looking forward to it! 💕
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Update / Review : SilverSneakers Exercise Streaming Opportunity on Facebook Thursday 03.19.20
Jenny, the instructor, carried all the energy and humor and relatedness that can only be found in a live class, and only surpassed by a live class of the same caliber teacher but with equally real time feedback to the participants in the class.
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SilverSneakers Exercise Streaming Opportunity on Facebook Thursday 03.19.20
At a time when so many resources are being curtailed, and much needed other health resources are just beginning to be provided, it’s good, and very welcome, that such a solid standby for seniors as SilverSneakers is providing this.
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Short Update on My Art, Blog Posts and Fitness 😊 March 08, 2020
With less dr visits planned this coming week, I’m hoping to use that extra time to paint again (beyond prep work) – and – post regularly again! I did upload my first new image to Fine Art America last night in almost three weeks, and hope to have a “new FAA uploads” post up later…
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My Day Ahead – Nov 16, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊 : Ear plugs, hearing loss, Oil painting varnish.
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My Day Ahead – Nov 13, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊 : Paintings – Max & Grandma, In the Light; Walking
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Carry Exercise: The Most Effective Exercise of All Time – SilverSneakers
The carry exercise trains your entire body for ultimate function, strength, and stability. Here are six variations you can do with a kettlebell or dumbbell….
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SilverSneakers Instructors: 5 Things They Know About Senior Fitness
“Let’s face it, even if you’re a class regular, some days it can be tough to put on your workout gear and get moving. Or if you’ve never exercised before and are just starting, it can be nerve-racking to show up as the newbie.”
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My Day Ahead – Oct 16, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊
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My Day Ahead – Oct 10, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊
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Yoga Moves for Better Sleep
These four gentle poses can calm your nerves before bed and help you get a good night’s rest.— Read on www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-science-19/better-rest/graphic-yoga-better-sleep (note 1: WebMD’s link above includes a link to download the graphic) (note 2: the image above is my own, of my wife Sheila on the seawall in Galveston, patiently posing for me 💕…
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Dessert Smoothies: 8 Quick and Easy Recipes – SilverSneakers
“These dessert smoothies taste like milkshakes but are secretly healthy. Plus, each requires only four ingredients. Try these quick and easy recipes. — Read on www.silversneakers.com/blog/dessert-smoothies-taste-like-milkshakes-but-healthy/ “
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Dr. Gabe Mirkin on Health, Fitness and Nutrition. | Breakfast Skippers Have More Plaques
“…researchers found that people who eat a large percentage of their total daily calories for breakfast have the fewest heart attack risk factors…”
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My Day Ahead – Sept 13, 2019
“I know she knew I knew she knew some things I was just too young to know yet…But she was in less a rush than even I have gotten to, or think I have, lol 😊 ”
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Today’s My Surgery – But I’ve Restocked My Art at Old Bakery & Emporium 😊
“What a treat to restock some of my prints before my surgery – yay!“
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What Should I Do Right Before My Surgery? Fix Up My Art Room!! 😊
“If my recovery from tomorrow’s hiatal surgery trails (as per the Dr’s) slightly longer than my emergency gallbladder surgery from the end of June, it’ll be early to mid November before I feel as able and wanting to do things as right now – sounds, with my wife’s help…”
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My 1st Zumba Gold Class Since, Well, 2011! 💃 😊
“I definitely challenged both the notion of what was reasonable or possible for me at this point in my recovery, but it was good have a pace that let me do the class, start to finish!”
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SilverSneakers Yoga – Update 2+ Months Later, My First Class Since My Surgery 😊 🙏
First yoga class after emergency gall bladder surgery, with Shelagh Chandler, a long time dedicated SilverSneakers instructor from yoga to dance cardio… New blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma
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At the Old Bakery & Emporium – 1st Volunteer Work Shift Since My Surgery – The Preponderance of Wonderful Paintings & Photos Has Me Thinking…
“…looking at my memories in pigment, my remembrances in pixels – I realize I need to do something more with my images.“
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My Most Visited Post of the Week, Mon-Sun Ending 08.04.19
My Most Visited Post of the Week, Mon-Sun Ending 08.04.19
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Aging Gracefully – Update on My Health & Upcoming “Tune-up” 😊
I’ve also been working on a major blog update post with “tune-up” in the title for nearly a week. I must have tune-up on the brain syndrome 😊
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Have a Great Friday & Weekend Everyone! I’m Taking a Few Days Off, Well, Kinda 😊
“…we played today and we’ll play Friday, then this weekend I’ll look again at my two poems, ‘Cross Country’ circa ’94, and ‘Accelerating Into the Curve’ circa 2012 – and the posts I’m working up for them.”
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Aging Gracefully – Walking’s Paying Off After Surgery, Step by Step 😊
My lesson is — slow is better than not at all. And slow is better than fast too fast, then not being able to move at all, lol!
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Aging Gracefully – When Yoga Breathing Paid Off In the ER 😊
I thought it very cool a breath training segment of some of my yoga classes actually helped enable a health caretaker, my medical helper of the moment, also better “see” inside me, and thus help heal me!
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