Trust you had a great weekend - we rarely buy the weekend paper in our household, but my wife occasionally indulges the extravagance to read the extended coverage pieces, and since having started this blog, I find myself also combing through the paper with a watchful eye toward a contribution of worth to this ongoing tome.
This weekend just gone has uncovered a gem from the Sydney Morning Herald, courtesy of Philip Clarke (who was a regular on our local ABC radio as well). In this piece, we are taken through a wonderful journey of "hiking in the middle age hinterland", trying to understand how and when we became old - or older! PC ponders that it's a period between 40 and 60 - and that "learning to keep putting one foot in front of the another is a great life skill".
For me, it guess it was my kids reminding me at every opportunity of my encroaching baldness. What is it for you I wonder? What triggers the mind to say "gee I'm not as spritely as I used to be?" the extra kilos on the scale, the faster quickening of the heart beat on the tread mill, or the lack of low rider jeans in your wardrobe (I am eternally grateful for that one though).
In my last post, I discussed how being old is an attitude, not grey hair, well I had to laugh when reading this piece because its byline was "Thinking young is fine, just do not pretend you are..." , and when applying these thoughts to this blog, very salient advice.
Dying ones hair, wearing very updated kit, or trying to talk the same language at Gen Y, will very quickly be found out, and treated accordingly.
"there's nothing funnier than a bloke in a wig" Roddy Doyle - "or a comb over" Domenic Nicholas.
enjoy the read from the SMH.
Have a great day!
Dom
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