Old Guys Say the Strangest Things

One Old Guy!

An old guy (Sylvano Arieti) in a book on Creativity said that vacations are central to remaining creative. Not so odd!


Another Old Guy

Was at a meeting a few days ago .... not a bunch of cub-scouts .... Might've been one person under 60 ... most in the 70-90+ group. I mentioned that my son and I were, at his request, going on a road trip in his Volkvagen on Steroids .... the car we call the Big Beast. Our wives will fly down and meet us at the terminus of our trip with our youngest grandchild ... Our oldest child (46) driving with me ... meeting his wife and mine and his two-year old sweetheart. Sounded like fun to me.


This other Old Guy at the meeting -- in all seriousness -- said there must be something wrong with me ... psychopathologically wrong with me to go on a trip with my middle-aged son. This Old Guy had practiced psychiatry for at least 65 years (Arieti was a shrink, too).

Just goes to show ....  (or as the kids say ... I'm just sayin' ...) Players in the Last Quarter run the gamut .... (sage to sphinctor magnum) and some of them should run the gauntlet.

Vaia con Dios ....

Forgetting Gratitude

How odd it is that I left gratitude out of my list of core constituent parts of health, in my last posting .... 'Who is the wealthy one? He who is grateful for the hand (s)he was dealt.' (Ethics of the Fathers ~ 2,000 years ago).

Sometimes we forget gratitude.