Vim, Vital and Vigorous

When I was about ten, Mom use to say we would have to visit one of her old relatives just for a short time. We would walk there, her and I and they were very old, at least to me a ten year old kid.

I could hardly wait to leave and to go home and to play with my real dolls or the paper ones we played with. They were cut out from a paper doll book you bought for about one dollar, a lot of money in those days.

Mom said I could get a new one if we visited. So I did and it was not so bad. They were sweet old folks and they liked me. One was the brother of my grandmom, who I never knew. She was gone before I was born.

Now, I saw Jerry Lewis, the comedian/actor who is 90 and still active, though he said he cannot walk well. It was a television program and he ran the Muscular Dystrophy telethon on Labor Day for about 35 years. People would call up and donate money to the cause and the next day, you received a bill for it and I gladly donated about 25 dollars. A small amount, but the totals over the years amounted he said about 2 billion dollars. His sadness he said there still is no cure, but the children who were in wheelchairs loved to see him in person and they did get some help for their needs which was a blessing to them.

On one of the shows they showed from the nineties was his renewal with his partner, Dean Martin who he had not seen for 20 years and they not had talked to each other for that time. Frank Sinatra brought them together one Sunday and Jerry was surprised, they hugged and it was something to behold.

He tries to be active and he had 7 children, I believe 6 boys and 1 girl from his 2nd marriage. He said he was complaining about old age a bit and she said to him " but you are here."

So we seniors are and happy to be here. We try to be active physically and most of all mentally. I walk each day around my home 2100 or more feet, not all at once, but this is the size of 7 football fields. Last year this time I was walking about 300 feet which is one field. So bravo to me and everyone who is accomplishing what they want to attain.We have dreams, goals and plans and we are still vibrant, vigorous, full of vim and vitality.