A Series Of Rainbows In Your Life

I am a ballroom dancer, long before Dancing With the Stars was a twinkle in the eye of some
producers to put on a ballroom dancing show. I started to ballroom dance and to
take lessons when I was forty-three and my husband was forty-seven. We were preparing
to be able to dance at a celebration party we were giving. I had always loved
to dance and when I was twenty or so, I took a set of lessons at a franchised
dance studio. I learned nothing except that they grabbed my five hundred
dollars for fifty lessons and I learned barely anything. Then when I was a few
years over twenty I had a so called boyfriend and he was a sometimes dance
teacher and on Sundays, about five of them, he tried to teach me to Rhumba and
I saw he did not know too much, charged me per lesson, and I dumped him and the
lessons. When we were in Paris when we were about forty and forty-four, we went
as the travel group to a nightclub there called The Lido. Many seniors got up
and danced and a couple named Rachel and Bob got up to dance and right then and
there, I vowed to myself, that we would dance like them next year at our
celebration party.

So we started at age forty-three and forty-seven and I went
on to become a dance competitor and I danced in competitions in Kansas,
Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and D.C.

I won fifty-eight trophies and medals and they reside on
special shelves I had built in my kitchen to display them. They sit or stand
there as a symbol of what middle aged people going all the way up to seniors
can accomplish. My dancing abilities lasted from 1977- 2001 encompassing being
forty something until sixty-five. I still dance now whenever the old right
Osteoporosis allows me to.

This just proves to everyone that anyone can accomplish
anything they desire even if they start out at their mid-forties and continue
on until the late sixties and seventies.

I myself went back to get a college degree and I received it
at the age of forty after taking at least five years to do it part time, having
a husband, two children seven and three at that time and a widowed mother, who
I assisted her in driving her places and being there for her. She too
accomplished at age fifty-seven going back to a nice job for the State Of
Maryland after Dad passed on. She worked there for thirteen years and she
rarely missed a day of work.

There is a saying that says: “A series of raindrops can
become a torrential rain.” I add on to that by saying a series of raindrops can
become a rainbow of life. A life that is productive, worthwhile, happy and
fulfilling.

When my Mom was about to turn forty on May 8^th,
1947, I was thirteen years old. I thought “My God, Mom is an old lady
tomorrow.” I thought she might not be as sweet, kind and caring because now she
was elderly. The next day, she was the same wonderful Mom. The age was not old,
neither was sh

So forty becomes fifty, sixty and etc. As we age, we can
still produce, accomplish, be vital and vigorous and the numbers mean nothing.
People are living longer and being more involved in life and their lives are
enhanced, exhilarated and excellent.

So midlife and then senior life can be healthy, happy and
exciting.

My own brother went back when he was forty to become a
pharmacist. He went to school for three years because he already had the
bachelor’s degree and he went to school with twenty year olds who thought him
quite elderly at forty. You know what, he drove a truck on the weekends to make
ends meet for his wife and two small kids and he graduated with honor and won
an award for outstanding grades. When they honored him at age forty-four or so
at the graduation, the dean said “I always wondered why you were late for class
every Monday morning and now I found out what had been happening. You were
coming off of a truck driving shift, ran home, showered and came to class. Wow.
And now you are graduating with honor at the top of your class of all young
people in their early twenties.

Bravo to you.”

My own son after achieving a bachelor’s degree, Phi Beta
Kappa, a law degree with honor, a CPA degree in his twenties and thirties, and
then he went on to attain a master’s degree as a CPA tax attorney, at about the
age of forty-three. Bravo to anyone who accomplishes this.

So being midyear folks, you are advocates for what we can
accomplish in these 40-65 years and older. Do not sit back and watch your
television to pass the hours. Do not let the hours pass without doing something
quite wonderful for you.

You will be giving the gift of the gift to you of living,
prospering and achieving whatever you want at any age. Others too will be
gifted because they will realize that they too can attain, produce and endorse life.
Another saying states: “ If you don’t step forward, you will always be in the
same place.”

Step forward and you shall reap the rewards of the gift of
life. You need not ballroom dance to step forward; anything you attempt is
going forward. You will forward yourself to competence, peace and the expertise
of living life to its fullest.

You will have your own raindrops that turned into your
special rainbow.