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A Morning Walk Along Collumbus Avenue by Garrison Keillor


(My World   April 18, 2024)
I want to tell the parents on Columbus Avenue, 'Take that kid on a trip alone with you to the Grand Canyon or Greenland or some other stunning spot; the privilege will see that kid through many hard times.'…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Man Walks Out on Stage as Storm Rolls —On Stage as Storm Rolls by Garrison Keillor


(My World   April 11, 2024)
I did my solo stand-up act in Ohio last week and in the midst of a story, the auditorium shook with a blast of thunder. Another roll of thunder. And I started singing, 'How Great Thou Art,' with the line, 'I see the stars, I hear the tolling thunder'...
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Music • Nature • Optimal Aging


My Plan for Today and April and May by Garrison Keillor


(My World   March 21, 2024)
People love people who have good stories and there is no good story without trouble so get into trouble while you're still young and have time to climb out of the ditch…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Inspiration • Memories • Optimal Aging


Mature Man Available for Speaking, Easy Terms by Garrison Keillor


(My World   March 14, 2024)
I am one of America's few remaining octogenarian stand-up comics, still able to stand for up to two hours, even three, and in the current comedy crop, I am a classicist…
Topics: Communication • Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wisdom


Flaoting Down the Canyon Through the Rapids by Garrison Keillor


(My World   February 29, 2024)
I accept change, even some changes that pain me. In that respect, life is not unlike rafting through fhe Grand Canyon with calm pools between the boiling rapids…
Topics: Change • Character, Integrity • Choices and Decision Making • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Learning • Lifestyle, General • Optimal Aging • Trends


Life is Precious by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   January 22, 2024)
Contemplating the meaning of Sanctity of Life Day…
Topics: Character, Integrity • Faith • Gratitute • Optimal Aging


Epictetus on Fifth Avenue, a Week Ago by Garrison Keillor


(My World   November 30, 2023)
Epictetus said the way to happiness is to not worry about things beyond your power to control, which includes this taxi ride, totalitarianism, the cost of tickets to 'Tannhäuser,' and other things that begin with T…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Coping • Humor • Optimal Aging • Stress • Wisdom


The Gift of Helen Story, Remembered by Garrison Keillor


(My World   September 14, 2023)
Somehow the ridiculous missteps of my life lead to this day in September, the back-to-school month, and in my heart I am still walking into the old high school, anxious to do well in Lyle Bradley's biology and Helen Story's English class…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Coping • Education • Humor • Learning • Memories • Optimal Aging • Tribute, Testimony


As I Keep Telling Myself, Life is Good by Garrison Keillor


(My World   September 7, 2023)
It dawns on you, watching this, that what makes a society a civilized society is the existence of rescuers who will put themselves at risk in service to others…
Topics: Character, Integrity • Civility • Compassion • Contentment, Satsifaction • Courage • Inspiration • News • Optimal Aging • Risk • Service


The Lucky Man Hits the Road, My Gosh by Garrison Keillor


(My World   August 10, 2023)
I dread the prospect of retirement, which in so many cases leads to disintegration and dementia. I intend to go on performing until I reach the age of 98, beating my mother by one year…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Health Care • Optimal Aging • Retirement • Travel • Wellness


Enough About Them, This is About Me by Garrison Keillor


(My World   August 3, 2023)
I turn 81 in a few days and I intend to spend my remaining time looking at beautiful things, starting with my wife, and enjoying music and comedy and theater and the writing of writers who make me happy.…
Topics: Beliefs • Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Change • Contemplation, Insight • Optimal Aging • Relationships


The Art of Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor


(My World   July 27, 2023)
The pleasure of moving is the excavation of the past. I open a box and here's a photo of my fifth-grade class, the eager neatly-combed-and-dressed boy with glasses is me. I am still that eager boy, heavier but anxious to do well…
Topics: Change • Contemplation, Insight • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging


Ports of Call on an Unforgettable Journey by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   July 22, 2023)
A miniature suitcase that adorned my bookshelf during the pandemic caps off memories of an incredible decade…
Topics: Change • Character, Integrity • Christian Life • Circumstances, Life Events • COVID-19 • Faith • History • Minorities • News • Optimal Aging • Relationships • Retirement


Stepping into My Story by Richard Bergstrom


(My World   July 21, 2023)
Taking time to reconsider my life story. Part two of Richard and Leona's personal stories as examples of the Gift of Life Review…
Topics: Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Faith • Grace • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Discoveing Gravity and Grace in Our Journey by Leona Bergstrom


(Health & Wellness   July 14, 2023)
Introducing the Gift of Life Review
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Grace • Optimal Aging • Wellness


A Lovely Lunch Last Week in New Haven by Garrison Keillor


(My World   June 22, 2023)
At lunch with a pregnant woman, you talk about ordinary life, family, summer, the food, the elation of the kids at the graduation we’d attended that morning and the pride of their parents, and we never set foot in politics at all…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Communication • Contentment, Satsifaction • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Afternoon Tea with the Galloping Gourmet by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   June 3, 2023)
Graham Kerr welcomed Greg and Wendy Asimakoupoulos to his home in Washington State…
Topics: Attitudes • Beliefs • Bible • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Dying and Death • Faith • Loss & Grieving • Love • Optimal Aging • Tragedy


O Fabulous Day! Callooh! Callay! by Garrison Keillor


(My World   June 1, 2023)
Stupidity has given me sympathy for other knuckleheads and also admiration for the beautiful competence of American medicine, which has extended my life dramatically, making it possible for me to beat myself up for my mistakes and not just take up space.
Topics: Attitudes • Circumstances, Life Events • Civility • Current Events, News • Humor • News • Optimal Aging • Politics • Relationships


Manhattan Man Living in the Past by Garrison Keillor


(My World   May 25, 2023)
What's on my mind is family history, the seven children of James Keillor and Dora Powell, and in all of Manhattan there's not a single soul who has the slightest interest, nor should there be…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Faith • Family • Memories • Optimal Aging


The Beauty of Being a Guy by Garrison Keillor


(My World   May 4, 2023)
This week of struggling with the knee brace has changed my life forever. I used to want to be hip and cool and now I just want to be capable. . . . So this week I discovered I can be a guy.…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Coping • Gratitute • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wellness


The Longer You Live the Better It Gets by Garrison Keillor


(My World   March 23, 2023)
Mortality is what makes the gifts enormous…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Gratitute • Inspiration • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Burying Your One Great Life by Leona Bergstrom


(My World   February 11, 2023)
A scene in the December 2022 movie "Puss in Boots: Last Wish" captures how many Boomers feel as they transition into retirement. Many feel they are burying their identity—their essence—their purpose…
Topics: Change • Choices and Decision Making • Lifestyle, General • Media • Movies • Optimal Aging • Planning • Retirement


Even Old People Need to Explore New Realams by Garrison Keillor


(My World   February 10, 2023)
I do not have a single friend who was looking forward to hearing Taylor Swift and who was furious at Ticketmaster for messing up her tour and watched carefully the congressional hearings into the whole Swiftian crisis. Nobody.…
Topics: Attitudes • Change • Choices and Decision Making • Learning • Optimal Aging • Relationships


You Will Get it Wrong . . . But You Won't Make it Worse by Cariad Lloyd / The Guardian


(Connections   January 27, 2023)
16 ways to talk to people who are grieving…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Circumstances, Life Events • Comfort & Consolation • Communication • Coping • Dying and Death • Loss & Grieving • Love • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Squeezing Good Out of Bad by James N. Watkins


(My World   January 20, 2023)
Yikes! It’s hard to believe that Squeezing Good Out of Bad is sixteen years old…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Choices and Decision Making • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Humor • Optimal Aging


A Pleasant Night with Nice People in LA by Garrison Keillor


(Connections   January 13, 2023)
People could go hear a lecture on the coming water shortage in the Southwest or come hear me tell you that life is pretty good and could be worse but even if bad things happen there is a great deal of kindness in the world…
Topics: Attitudes • Circumstances, Life Events • Contentment, Satsifaction • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Don't Let Balance Die! by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   December 3, 2022)
A grave marker in a Chicago cemetery is a call to keep balance alive in our lives during this hectic holiday season…
Topics: Choices and Decision Making • Christmas • COVID-19 • Gratitute • Holidays • Holiday Season • Lifestyle, General • Optimal Aging • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving


Disillusioned by Rchard and Leona Bergstrom /ReIgnite


(My World   November 18, 2022)
The Rolling Stones song, 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' seems like an essential qualifier to the title, 'What Retirees Want.' An excerpt from the soon-to-be-released book: EMERGING
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Optimal Aging • Planning • Retirement • Social Issues


A Word to the Wise as Winter Approaches by Garrison Keillor


(My World   October 20, 2022)
Cold weather stimulates the brain because survival is involved and the body wants to survive and when challenged it will do what is necessary, even think clearly…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Change • Optimal Aging • Seasons


What Has Been Done for Me Back in Minnesota by Garrison Keillor


(Health & Wellness   September 8, 2022)
Lessons from open-heart surgery: Nursing is the occupation that comes closest to what Jesus told His followers to do —bathing the poor, feeding them, adjusting their pillows, making small talk to reassure them of their humanity…
Topics: Gratitute • Health Care • Inspiration • Optimal Aging • Service • Tribute, Testimony • Work


Into the Tunnel, Thinking in the Dark by Garrison Keillor


(My World   September 2, 2022)
The technician said through a speaker, “How are you doing? Not much longer.” Actually, I wished it could be longer…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Health Care • Memories • Optimal Aging • Wellness


Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, Making Inspired Mistakes by Maria Popova / The Marginalian


(Arts & Entertainment   August 27, 2022)
'However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth … steps in and does something.'…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Arts & Entertainment • Attitudes • Beliefs • Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Character, Integrity • Faith • Optimal Aging


Life Comes in Focus as the Day Approaches by Garrison Keillor


(My World   August 26, 2022)
Open-heart surgery didn’t exist when I was a kid; . . . the fact that they imagine a guy of eighty deserves a battery jump is very inspiring…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Health Care • Hopes & Dreams • Opportunity • Optimal Aging • Science & Technology • Wellness


Drama is Life Trying to Get Our Attention by Garrison Keillor


(My World   August 12, 2022)
Carrying anger in your heart is misery in a bottle. . . thoughts on life as an old man prepares for open heart surgery…
Topics: Attitudes • Contemplation, Insight • Forgive, Forgiveness • Health Care • Hopes & Dreams • Learning • Optimal Aging • Wellness


A Big Event and Then a Major Accouncement by Garrison Keillor


(My World   August 4, 2022)
I feel I should go to Iowa this week and meet the donor of the heart valve I'm about to get and express my gratitude…
Topics: Gratitute • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wellness


Life is Like a Rack of Billiard Balls by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   July 16, 2022)
Taking aim at the days of our lives…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Future • Learning • Lifestyle, General • Optimal Aging • Wellness


70 Life's Lessons by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   April 23, 2022)
What I’ve learned in seventy years of living…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Contemplation, Insight • Learning • Memories • Optimal Aging


Just One More Morning of an Old Man by Garrison Keillor


(My World   April 7, 2022)
Thoughts on life from the right field bleachers…
Topics: Baseball • Change • Choices and Decision Making • Circumstances, Life Events • Contentment, Satsifaction • Optimal Aging


Americans Are Stuck in Unhealhty Pandemic Habits by Alliison Aubrey / NPR


(Health & Wellness   March 11, 2022)
Here's how to reboot…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Change • Circumstances, Life Events • COVID-19 • Disease • Lifestyle, General • Optimal Aging • Wellness


Happy 70th Birthday to Me! by James N. Watkins


(My World   February 18, 2022)
I prefer to think of it as 30 plus 40 years of experience…
Topics: Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging


The Agony and the Ecstasy of Downsizing by Leona Bergstrom


(My World   February 12, 2022)
I know I must let go of stuff, let go of who I once was and the pursuits I once fought for, but…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Change • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Housing • Lifestyle, General • Memories • Optimal Aging • Values


A Cactus' Lesson by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(My World   January 28, 2022)
It's never too late to grow and reach…
Topics: Birthdays & Annivesaries • Faith • Learning • Metaphors, Life Lessons • Nature • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Twelve Steps by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   August 14, 2021)
What it takes to walk free…
Topics: Character, Integrity • Inspiration • Learning • Optimal Aging


Anniversaries by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Connections   August 13, 2021)
They frame the yesterdays of our lives with meaning…
Topics: Faith • Family • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships


The Biggest Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older by Kristin Wong / Lifehacker


(Our World   May 28, 2021)
For seniors who look back with regret, you can still change course for the future…and help others make the most of their time…
Topics: Change • Choices and Decision Making • Hopes & Dreams • Lifestyle, General • Opportunity • Optimal Aging • Relationships


NASA Trailblazer's Inspiring Journey by Christopher Brito / CBS News


(Learn   March 5, 2021)
She came to the U.S. with $300 and worked housekeeping jobs. Now she's a flight director for NASA's Mars Perseverance…
Topics: Attitudes • Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Character, Integrity • Circumstances, Life Events • Discipline • Inspiration • Opportunity • Optimal Aging


Luck and Success by Stu Johnson


(Faith   April 4, 2018)
How would you descrbe your life journey?…
Topics: Attitudes • Beliefs • Choices and Decision Making • Coping • Faith • Hopes & Dreams • Optimal Aging