Category Archives: Dalai-Nana Wisdom

Pearls of wisdom from one who has lived and loved a long time!

Apr14

What to do when I’m 62

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What to do when I’m 62

What to do when I’m 62?

My daughter, who is 32, looks forward and thinks 62 is an age to retire.

Aunt Onie

My Aunt, who is 92, looks back on 62 as an age to kick up your heels and live it up. I think I will agree with My Aunt.  Here is Onie on what she would do if she were 62 again.  It is interesting to consider our ages from various perspectives.

Although just 100 years ago a person of the advanced age of 62 would have out lived the life expectancy by 15 years, today, we are just hitting our prime. Since my family history has very long life lines, I can look at 62 as truly middle age.

So what will I do now that I am 62?

Mar7

Consumer Economy and Baby Boomers

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Consumer Economy and Baby Boomers

Baby Boomers created the Consumer Economy

The Consumer Economy is based on Baby Boomer consumption.  Baby Boomers created this Consumer Economy and now that we are beginning to downsize, the whole thing is falling apart.  Business and Marketers have not kept up with our needs and therefore, what I want, what you want, what 80 billion people want we cannot find.  To revive the Consumer Economy and Baby Boomer purchases we need to create:

  1. I want a smaller home but with the conveniences and elegance found in larger homes
  2. I want clothes designed to look good on a mature body not a stick
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Feb8

The Scared is scared – A Movie by a 6 year old

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The Scared is scared – A Movie by a 6 year old

A 6 year old’s Fantasy and Advice turned into a Movie

 

A Movie by a 6 year old is magic!  When Bianca Giaever asked a six-year-old what the movie she was making for college should be and she turned that earful into a piece of simply magic.

The movie, called the Scared is scared, tells the tale of a bear, a mouse, swimming pools, sleepovers, friendship, pizza and life. It’s excitement, fear, joy and bewilderment wrapped up into a story full of heart and humor that only a six-year-old’s imagination could provide.  Mashable Read the rest of this entry →

Jan26

Making Food from Scratch

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Making Food from Scratch

Great Questions from Little Minds

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch,” Carl Sagan famously observed in Cosmos, “you must first invent the universe.” The questions children ask are often so simple, so basic, that they turn unwittingly yet profoundly philosophical so as to require “apple-pie-from-scratch” type of answers.

Making food from Scratch

RTW age 2.5

My daughter, aged 2.5 posed one such question to me.  How do you make Grape Juice?  Though it may sound innocent enough, my attempt to satisfy her with Concentrated juice resulted in a fit for the ages.  She was on the floor, screaming with uncontrollable outrage as only a 2 year old can.  So we went to the store to buy grapes to make grape juice.  When I chose the green grapes (seedless of course) she again went into an outrage.  However, since we were in a public place, I quickly redirected her attention and put the fear of spoiling her behind me.  “POORPOOL GRAPES”  she said over and over and was ecstatically gleeful when we found big juicy purple grapes.  In fact, the entire grocery store was aware of our find and just how wonderful these PoorPul Grapes were.

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Jan25

Heddy Lamar A Beauty and a Brain

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Heddy Lamar A Beauty and a Brain

Heddy Lamar holds a Patent for LTE Technology

How a Hollywood Star, an LTE Patent, a dinner with Hitler make your life easier

This lovely Hollywood icon may just be the reason you can read this today.

Heddy Lamar a Beauty and a Brain.  She was a Beauty.  That is unmistakable.  But she was also a Brain of monumental importance.  She holds the patent for LTE technology which she conceived while playing “stupid” at dinner parties with Hitler and her first husband.

LTE Technology is the reason that you can work using wifi, it is part of the next evolution of mobile and when you use your cell phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access, you’ll be using an extension of the technology a 20- year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler. Read the rest of this entry →