Since February is my Birthday Month, I thought I would write this blog about how I feel about stepping into my 78th year. Truthfully, I am excited. I’ve never been 78 before! Remember when you were in school and you started the year with fresh, blank tablets and notebooks just waiting to be filled with things yet unknown? That’s how I feel about becoming 78. I look forward to it with curiosity and excitement.

I’m assuming many of you are thinking, Why? Well, let me tell you.

We are now firmly planted in 2025. What are you going to do with your Now?

Now you’re one year older and now you’re one year wiser. Today is your Now. This is your chance to leave behind yesterday and claim the person you want to be.

Let’s face it, aging is a whole new experience unlike any we have had before. My parents had a framed saying in their kitchen that said “Aging is not for Sissies”. I must have looked at that a hundred times and never given it much thought. But like so many things in life, now that I am living it, I am understanding it.

Let’s face it, aging is a whole new experience unlike any we have had before. My parents had a framed saying in their kitchen that said “Aging is not for Sissies”. I must have looked at that a hundred times and never given it much thought. But like so many things in life, now that I am living it, I am understanding it.

Your surroundings are not only a reflection of yourself. That reflection also bounces back at you, setting your mood. Like a reflection in a pond of water how you see yourself is largely a picture of yourself in your surroundings. 

Although aging starts the minute we are born when do we really start to think about it?  You would think that it was a given and would be something that we would just always be aware of but evidently, I wasn’t!