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     Danger_dave |
Wot you done and how you dun done it. | |||
| Froggy |
I love these threads.  | |||
| Court |
Hehehehehe . . . I may have to send you the video of my commencement speech at Columbia. It was a synopsis but was good enough for a standing ovation. I still haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up.  | |||
| Glitch |
I still haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up. Do tell. | |||
| Road_thing |
You have to get old. You don't have to grow up! rt | |||
| Madduck |
I have an 10 year old grand-nephew that thought I should be more mature by now. I told him that I thought I would be dead by now. My current state seems to be the best compromise to him and why argue with an 10 year old. Fifty-nine always seemed sooo old when I was a kid. Should be saving for retirement but am looking at gear to get another nephews band back together. My heirs are hoping that I might own some of this stuff outright by the time I die, I wished them well on their dreams. | |||
| Svh |
Please do post up the video I would love to watch it. | |||
| White |
PLEASE! | |||
| No_rice |
}You have to get old. You don't have to grow up! ya you would aparently know! lol | |||
| Dbird29 |
Remind him to remind you to remind him to tell you sometime.... | |||
| Spiderman |
The annuls that are the Badweb are not large enough to contain the story that is Court. | |||
| Court |
>>>Fifty-nine always seemed sooo old when I was a kid. I am irrevocably convinced that you begin to age when you forget how to dream. Each day a person should dream. The physical aging process is well settled, it's simple biology that I can no longer compete as an all-around gymnastics champion or competitive diver. That's biology. . . no one eludes that process. But, and of much greater concern, is emotional and mental aging. I know 40 year olds who are "old" and I know 80 year olds who are "young". My Uncle Otto Weilert just this year, shortly before his 75th birthday finally gave up playing hockey . . ON A COLLEGE INTRAMURAL TEAM~! Your body is only partially yours and will surrender, at varying rates based on the care you give it, to chronology. Your mind however is your domain. Where it goes, what it does and it's ability to continue doing mental calisthenics as the years roll up is pretty much all within your purview. I belong to a think tank in San Francisco called the Commonwealth Club. For a most interesting treatise on aging I'd suggest the writings of Dr. Robert Butler. I have attached one of my favorites from 1999. To the young of mind . . . well, a "200 year plan" makes sense. Court
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| Reepicheep |
"I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once, as I ever was..." (Kinda what Court said, but in "country music" rather then blue blood columbia speak  ) | |||
| Danger_dave |
I'm 50 years in and still to make a plan or set any goals. Of course this flies in the face of all the text books and every piece of advice ever written. Maybe that's why it works. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx | |||
| Davegess |
My body may feel old but I don't. Gotta lose the 9R for a City X pretty soon cause it getting hard to put the feet down at stops Don't plan on giving up the ridin' | |||
| 86129squids |
"Clear stream, meanders by this hamlet, flowing. Long summer days, at River Village, everything at ease. Coming, going, as they please, the pairs of swallows soaring Paired and close, the gulls float with the stream. My old wife draws a board for chess. My son bends pins for fishhooks. I'm often sick, but I can find good herbs. What, beyond this, could a simple man ask?" Tu Fu "One of the elders said: Either fly as far as you can from men, or else, laughing at the world and the men who are in it, make yourself a fool in many things." Thomas Merton Doing a commencement speech has to be a pinnacle achievement. Good on ya Court- if you're not bashful about it, I'd love to read the text. I hope to reach those heights someday, despite being a college dropout. I'm so proud of my newly minted Doctorate sister, but now I realize what it takes (kinda) to get there. I'm humbled. Do tell. | |||
| Ronbob43 |
I got my XB9SX, my first Buell, on 2/2, my 66th birthday. I have been riding 46 years and this is the machine I have been waiting for. I have no plan to retire from work or riding. When "biology" demands an end to these activities they will cease. |
Dr. Robert Butler - The Commonwealth Club - 11-18-99 - Court's Archives