Show j 5 a w F k w. w 1 S SUE WATSON emphasizes sen for activity Senior Citizens Shenanigans By BV Sue Watson El Elderly erly people are arc waking up to the fact that the brain is a muscle and needs exercise to keep functioning The Power of Positive Thinking is not just a catch phrase for Cor ministers to hurl at their congregations Its It's an idea iden that works with anything you try it on on SO WHILE you arc are doing your calisthenics calisthenics cal cal- in the morning to keep your body slim and supple try thinking about what hat you will be doing to keep your brain pleasantly and usefully active during during dur duro ing the day ahead Try something new You might be surprised at how easy it is to learn There is a n short cut to Spanish now that can be mastered in a couple of months and it would make a trip to Old Mexico a joy and a delight WRITE YOUR memoirs and get even with all your relatives you dont don't like Im I'm going to call mine Ox Carts to Moon 1 Rockets Play with some child child- ren Kiss your neighbor if he is an old man and lonely Presuming of course that you are an old woman as I Iam Iam Iam am Make some money Its It's fun OF COURSE old people need help and much is being done about bout it but it is a tremendous satisfaction and gratification gratification grat grato to work out some private schemes to help ones one's self to prove that the mind is still capable of functioning and that the staunch old heart is still in tune with the times Senility is an escape mechanism Its It's a giving up Its It's a backing away from responsibility Its It's a dying before you are dead Lets Let's just say that the happiest happiest hap hap- people in the old age bracket are arc the ones with intellectual activities IF YOU fear senility do something about it for it is the quick sand of old age Dont Don't sink into it like a dinosaur in a primordial swamp |