Happy birthday!! Beautifully written❣️❣️❣️ May this be your best year yet as you keep acquiring wisdom. One of my favorite quotes on aging is by Maya Angelou “The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.”
In that vein, I wear what I want at the young age of 61 and sometimes don’t even worry about not wearing a bra. True liberation. See, that’s how this aging thing works. Haha!!
About four years ago, my husband and I went to visit friends at their vacation home in Naples. We stayed a few nights with them. Molly asked us the night before we left if we’d strip the sheets off the bed and put a fresh pair of sheets on that were continently located on the shelf of the closet in our room. Of course we didn’t mind since we’d had a lovely visit with them. However, a light bulb went off in my head. Mainly, how brilliant to ask guests who stay in my home the exact same thing in regards to changing the sheets upon their departure. So, I’ve been doing that for the last four years. I have no shame in asking. Anyway, I had a college roommate stay with me two nights ago. She was coming for dinner but didn’t commit to staying cause she didn’t want to be any trouble. (Entertaining is never trouble but it is work if you’re like me and want to make a fabulous meal and have a lovely evening with your guests). I digress. Anyway, we were texting this and I texted back “it’s no trouble. Besides, I ask my guests to change the sheets and that helps so much.” Well, when she got to my house I got a huge rebuke about my new found freedom in no longer having to change the guests’ sheets and asking them to do it. Well, at 61 I don’t really care and I don’t agree with her. And, it’s my house so I get to call the shots. In my youth, I’d never ask anyone to do this. Part of my southern charm I suppose. But, now I’m older and I don’t have a housekeeper and honestly I LOVE LOVE not having to change the sheets and now the room is ready (mostly) for the next person. And, the irony of this particular friend is she didn’t eat a thing of what I spent hours cooking. She drank her vodka never touched any food and then proceeded to get very sick at my house. Bless her heart but how’s that for manners?!! All that to say, there are many advantages to being older!! I’m not exactly crazy about being 61 and that my husband will be 70 next year but I can’t change it so I live each day to the fullest and know in my heart that “We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent (young) and shy as magnolias." Maya Angelou
Funny, when you said "perfect day" i thought of Lou Reed ( who was probably talking about heroin) which you don't need for a perfect day, Reyna. Books and Chinese food, yoga, and an excellent couch will take you where you want to go (which is at home). Xxxx
Happy birthday!! Beautifully written❣️❣️❣️ May this be your best year yet as you keep acquiring wisdom. One of my favorite quotes on aging is by Maya Angelou “The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.”
In that vein, I wear what I want at the young age of 61 and sometimes don’t even worry about not wearing a bra. True liberation. See, that’s how this aging thing works. Haha!!
About four years ago, my husband and I went to visit friends at their vacation home in Naples. We stayed a few nights with them. Molly asked us the night before we left if we’d strip the sheets off the bed and put a fresh pair of sheets on that were continently located on the shelf of the closet in our room. Of course we didn’t mind since we’d had a lovely visit with them. However, a light bulb went off in my head. Mainly, how brilliant to ask guests who stay in my home the exact same thing in regards to changing the sheets upon their departure. So, I’ve been doing that for the last four years. I have no shame in asking. Anyway, I had a college roommate stay with me two nights ago. She was coming for dinner but didn’t commit to staying cause she didn’t want to be any trouble. (Entertaining is never trouble but it is work if you’re like me and want to make a fabulous meal and have a lovely evening with your guests). I digress. Anyway, we were texting this and I texted back “it’s no trouble. Besides, I ask my guests to change the sheets and that helps so much.” Well, when she got to my house I got a huge rebuke about my new found freedom in no longer having to change the guests’ sheets and asking them to do it. Well, at 61 I don’t really care and I don’t agree with her. And, it’s my house so I get to call the shots. In my youth, I’d never ask anyone to do this. Part of my southern charm I suppose. But, now I’m older and I don’t have a housekeeper and honestly I LOVE LOVE not having to change the sheets and now the room is ready (mostly) for the next person. And, the irony of this particular friend is she didn’t eat a thing of what I spent hours cooking. She drank her vodka never touched any food and then proceeded to get very sick at my house. Bless her heart but how’s that for manners?!! All that to say, there are many advantages to being older!! I’m not exactly crazy about being 61 and that my husband will be 70 next year but I can’t change it so I live each day to the fullest and know in my heart that “We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent (young) and shy as magnolias." Maya Angelou
Funny, when you said "perfect day" i thought of Lou Reed ( who was probably talking about heroin) which you don't need for a perfect day, Reyna. Books and Chinese food, yoga, and an excellent couch will take you where you want to go (which is at home). Xxxx
But Lou mentions seeing animals at the zoo and maybe a movie too and then home!
Loved every bit of this glorious post! Belated birthday wishes! 🎂