Weekly Newsletter -SHARP MIND
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Weekly Newsletter: As we live longer and longer in retirement it is our hope that our quality of life will keep pace with the extended years. We go to the gym and participate in activities to keep our physical selves in tact. To have mind, body and soul working in perfect synergy is where we would all like to be. I am inspired to pay tribute to a lady who kept her mind sharp to the end. She passed away today – May, 28, 2014, at the age of 86, and wrote her last tweet on May 23, 2014. I think that is a remarkable testament to how being actively engaged in learning can keep our minds sharp until the end.
A woman who graced us with more than 30 books, allowing us to peep into her very florid life through six writings of her autobiography, yet she gave us just a bit more to think about in the end. She told us that she knew why the caged bird sang. She invited us to sing, swing and get merry like Christmas, and she also told us that we all needed traveling shoes. What a remarkable ride this woman took us on even lulling us to say simply, very simply with hope Good Morning – Good morning to a life we deserve to live with sharp minds, strong backs, quick feet, and happy hearts knowing we have worked hard to make useful and worthy contributions to our country.
And when we retire and have given our all to make a difference in someone’s life maybe even the world, we can take a page out of a phenomenal woman’s life where all who hungered for knowledge and wisdom sat at her feet, heard her teach as no one else could, and lovingly called her Auntie Maya. Maya Angelou, the poet, the teacher, the preacher, the phenomenal woman – you leave us words to strengthen our minds, you leave us your last tweet – “Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.” Read and read, write and write, engage our minds so that we will perhaps tweet something when the time comes about the wisdom of retiring well. Good morning Auntie Maya. This concludes our weekly newsletter.
P. S. Always Remember to Share What You Know.
Dianna Tafazoli
