Vital at 85

[pegkerr]

Man, I want to be like this when I'm 85.

Comments

[warrior-poetess.livejournal.com]

I took a yoga class with an 83 year old instructor. I was quite something to see her do a handstand.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Excellent.

It has long been my ambition to die at the age of 93 of a fall while rock-climbing.

[aome.livejournal.com]

My father is still aiming to climb Mt Rainier; the only thing which is holding him back is trying to juggle climbing season with all the work necessary in his garden. Meanwhile, he still takes periodic solo backpacking trips.

He'll be 80 next March.

[marypearson.livejournal.com]

Amazing. I'm not sure it's in my genes, but yeah, I could aspire to that. My husband has a client who is 102. We recently took her out to dinner to a western steak house and she got up and did the two-step with a waiter--in heels! And she is gorgeous and spunky. I told the waiter I'd have whatever she was drinking.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Me too! I know a woman of 88 who is just like that... I aspire to such things.

I'd better start practising now, 85 is starting to look only too close.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

I'm getting an early start on my plan to be an 80-year-old blues guitarist.

[misia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! I love her! This is great, thanks, Peg!

I'm going to print this out and send it to my mom's mother, who at 83 has recently moved into an apartment in a senior citizens' complex -- and is teaching yoga classes there in the complex, which is something she's done in the area where she lives since the mid-1970s and in the particular complex she now lives in since the 1990s when it was built. She will be SO tickled to know that there is someone even older than her who is still teaching yoga!

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

That's inspiring! (I just started taking Yoga classes last Friday.)

Heck, I wanna be Cary Grant when I'm 83

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Week ago Monday I was up visiting my second cousin Nova, with my uncle, sister & brother-out-law (sister's bf). Phyllis asked Nova about her walker, and she replied, "I only use it for effect."

[hilarymoonmurph.livejournal.com]

Three quarters of the time when you hear about a vital senior like this, yoga seems to be involved. Remember the Delaney sisters? African-american centennarians who sawed limbs off the branches of their trees, did all their own housework and yardwork, and practiced yoga.

My own personal longevity hero was a woman named Beverly who I knew from my church. She was 96, and died only because a drunk driver hit her when she was bicycling from the yoga class she was teaching to the flute class she was teaching. While I was enraged that a drunk driver had ended such a productive and inspiring life, I prefer that to the thought of dying on a sick bed.

Over 300 people came to her funeral... Most of them current or former students. Wow, I want to be like that when I grow up.

Hmm

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Me, I'd rather be like mizzlaurajean's great-grandmother, who just celebrated her 102nd birthday.

She finally gave up bowling after she celebrated her 100th birthday.