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1959: Year of Cool Cars, Scrumptious Desserts and Generation Jones

'59 Pontiac

’59 Pontiac

Being 65 and Membership in Generation Jones

Cheers to my fellow 1959ers! Whether we are ready to accept it or not, we are all turning 65 this year. It’s one of those really significant life markers, like turning 21. I remember being so eager to turn 21; naive me thought it would mean automatic freedom from parental rules and expectations and I would go from being an unhappy teenager to a happy-go-lucky adult . . . It didn’t turn out that way, but that was the other side of the moon.

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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

I love the shadow play in this picture. It makes me think of time passing, minutes, hours, days and seasons.

The wood was used by my father when he worked on scaffolding. One of my brothers planed it, finished it and installed it in my home. I love having it as a reminder of the hard and creative work that my father was so good at. He was an excellent bricklayer and when he worked on a project he could “see” the finished product in 3D in his head. He understood exactly what steps needed to be done to get to the finish. I think he would have been a very good architect or engineer if he had had the opportunity. He was very good at math and he could see how something needed to be built and how the different aspects of a project came together.

What do you do to expand or develop your creativity? – Cris

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