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ReplyDeleteIt certainly feels strange to be entering one's fiftieth year on this Earth. I am extremely lucky and blessed to be here. Also blessed to have you, my friends.
Congratulations on making it to the half way point! :-) I'm finding the 50's to be the best decade yet!
DeleteHoward Dean shares Firsties today with Catreona, the Three Wise Guys, and the Babe who got away.
I found my 40s to be the best decade of my life. I had the experience and maturity to provide the self-confidence I had lacked earlier, while my health was a good as ever. That extended into my early or mid-50s, but by my late 50s health issues were starting to arise. My age-related macular degeneration was diagnosed at age 58.
DeleteNow in my mid-70s, I find my get-up-and-go has got up and went. But I still find life more satisfying than I mostly did in my 20s.
Yes, I think hobbits have it right, the tweens. Can't quite remember the quotation, but something like, the carefree and unsettled twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
DeleteI've also been considering that fifty is supposed to be more sober. Well, I guess there's no harm in starting to be, or to try to be, more sober starting now, on my forty-ninth birthday. I have a whole year to contemplate that horrible word, "Fifty." On the other hand, Billbo's adventures started at fifty, as did Frodo's. So I suppose there's hope. *wry grin*
So the young one is starting to try to be more sober as she turns 49. [grin] Many happy returns!
Delete✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ for Les Miserables!
ReplyDeleteIf you can see it, DO!! I am so impressed, especially given that all the singing was recorded live during the scenes, not dubbed in later, and Anne Hathaway's hair was actually cut on camera, during the scene...she said her tears were real as she had been having some second thoughts about it. Her own hairdresser did the deed (dressed as a woman!). The performance of young Gavroche alone was worth the price of admission. The young Cosette gave a sweet performance also...lovely voice. Amazing all around!
Hello, all. I've been busy as anything at work, but I finished reading Well at the World;s End (1896) by William Morris [click]. What an interesting fellow! And a story well worth reading IMO. I think I will certainly read his Wood Beyond the World (1894) before long. They're both free via Project Gutenberg.
ReplyDeleteMiyoko belongs to a local Japanese karaoke group, and one of the principal members brought up the idea of getting a Karaoke player that would play both laser discs (which many members have) and DVD's (which are the current standard). It seems there was only one model by one manufacturer that was ever able to handle both (as well as CD's), and that was manufactured for a very short period of time. I started looking on eBay, eventually found one for a reasonable price, and ordered it. (They don't stay on sale very long.) Today we set it up and tested it, and finally got everything working properly (with a certain amount of random button pushing). The lady we got it for was SO PLEASED…and a lot of people will get enjoyment from it. It handles no less than three different formats of discs in four different sizes.
I also learned how to make a decent CD of music from YouTube.
BTW, here is a documentary about early Rock and Roll
[Click].
Nice weather here, albeit a little frosty in the mornings.
I hope this finds everyone well--I haven't yet read the last several days; worth of the blog.
--Alan
P.S.: Cat--I figure the natural lifespan of a human being is 120 years, so middle age starts at 60.
P.P.S.: listener--Les Miserables as a musical still seems weird to me...
FWIW, the oldest person in the US died yesterday at age 114.
DeleteI have heard "middle age" defined as "that period in life when it is harder to go up the stairs than down them." That fits my experience. It was sometime in my 40s that I started noticing that going up the stairs required extra effort. My second eye went bad at age 63. That meant I needed special care going down stairs and was also when I started to think of myself as "old."
As my experience shows, this definition is related almost as much to state of health as to chronological age. But in many cases, as in mine, I think that's appropriate.
Thanks, Alan. Maybe by birthday No. 60 I'll be accustomed to the idear of being grown up. *grin*
DeleteAlso, that player sounds like black magic! As I would have said thirty-five years ago, far out!
DeleteBill, I agree that age is largely a state of mind and health.
DeleteAlan...Les Miz as a musical is emotive, expressive, an art form, and greater than the sum of its parts. I hope you'll give it a fair hearing. ;-)
DeleteHappy Birthday, Cat.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Susan!
DeleteCat! What sort of cake did you have? How did you celebrate today? I can't wait to hear all about it...! ♥
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