how can we hold on?

how do we hold on to beauty?

As I round 40 I realize it is nearly impossible. It seems to me that 40 is a weird in between stage. I remember Oprah talking about how great 40 was...how much even better 50 was...but where does that leave me? The 30's slipped by so fast and unnoticed. I can't figure this age out. I feel like I'm in the wrong spot, wanting to age gracefully, yet not caring for how it is happening. Ageism is a real thing and I am guilty of it myself...to myself. I often feel like I am in the prime of my life. I enjoy my body and the way it looks, as far as 40 goes...then I think of how I can help it age more gracefully. Do we do this by just allowing things to happen? or do we help it along.

I will ponder this...hopefully for not too much longer, because I need an answer quick

Time to start our adieus....

To our 41st president of the US.....The man we referred to as our leader.....the great public speaker which all other countries judged us and our intelligence....We will take the next few days and put a light on some of the more colorful moments of President Bush.

This morning I gawked in awe at the TV. CNN had some snippets of Bush's speech. He was saying something about not being a man to dwell on mistakes (if that is what we are calling them).....Don't be so hard on yourself Mr. Bush, maybe you were having a rough few years, maybe it just wasn't your forte...it's ok, you will soon be forgotten and placed in a small section of 7th grade civics/history books as the oopsie we called #41: "W".
Hell, even Nixon had a few intelligent things to say.
So, here is one for today from Bush:
(not an exact quote, but close enough)
" Don't tell me FEMA was slow...if you think that, you are wrong. I went and talked (not spoke?)
to some of those Helicopter Drivers...they were there pickin people off of roofs".

hmmm, Prez. Bush...that wasn't FEMA...they were the Coast Guard...they have nothing to do with FEMA. One other question? Are they Helicopter Drivers....or PILOTS?
Weren't you a Pilot? Didn't you go to Yale?
We will never "misunderestimate you".
It's all strategerie.
write ya later,
m