OLDTIMER'S DISEASE

Put up a map of the world and turn on National Public Radio.

     Nobody knows when their brains may begin to deteriorate.  However, everyone should be less concerned than we usually are about memory lapses.  The distance in time or the strength of initial imprint determine one's ability to recall.  Problem is when we are old we are bothered more when we can't remember a name or incident.

     Old is in your genes.  Some families of humans seem to last longer than others.  Old is in your thinking.  Jimmie C. told me one time that he was getting up around that "40-mark" and it was time to start slowing down.

     Mid-life crisis usually hits about twenty years prior to reaching retirement age.  What happens after one passes age sixty-five?  Late-life crisises.  Which are much worse since unlike 45, 65 may be too late to fullfill any dreams which require physical stamina.

   Powdered milk is more important now than Mother's milk was in infancy.  I tried skim, recently, and it compares not at all.  Of course, my powdered skim has body and the more added to liquid the more "milk body."  I drink lots of tea, green, and black, and I take the edge off with powdered milk.  Then add a tad of cocoa powder.  It's a good habit forming cup. As far as the recovery drink, chocolate milk; when made with powdered milk, a little sugar and cocoa powder in heated water...we're talking too good. Mix it rich.  I remember being slowed on the number of glasses of milk with the admonition, "You're just thirsty, drink water!"  I down powdered cold milk often, just to quench my thirst.

Make new friends but keep the old.  One doesn't know you and the other probably told.