Sunday, May 1, 2016

Practicing for a better old age / Gerald Marzorati, NY Times p.1 Opinions

The author writes about his concerted effort to learn tennis, REALlY learn tennis, with a coach and 5 hours of practice a day.

Bottom line, one seizes time and makes it yours. One counters the narrative of diminishment and loss with one of progress and bettering. One spends hours removed from the past and the present and immerse oneself in the as yet. One is looking ahead, at least for a little while longer, without wistfulness or a flinch.

Inspiring! Since retirement, I spent 5 years learning French, continually taking classes, traveling to France.
I learned to weave,
I took several ceramics classes.
The latest is watercoloring.
But we started to travel A LOT, maybe 6 months out of a year. It's made keeping up with weaving and ceramics difficult.
What is my new passion for learning? Could it be travel?


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