COPIED Maintain Strong Connections The participants in the Cilento study had ties to their family, their religion and to the region where they live. “We were a close family of five children,” said one participant. “We loved each other a lot…

COPIED Work Most of the participants in the Cilento study had a robust work ethic during their life and continued to help out in old age. One family member in the Cilento study exclaims about an older participant, “I am always careful about [her] because she is so…

Wait, they’re also called “simply…” what? Let’s review…where oh where have we heard the root of that concept before? — EXCERPT: Many millennial and Gen Z workers are opting to take a temporary step back from their jobs for as…

COPIEDAccept Setbacks Bad things can happen to anyone. But people who made it to the 90-year-old mark demonstrated grit to work through it and accept the worst—even the loss of a spouse. The same participant in the Cilento study who had heart…

COPIED Accept Setbacks Bad things can happen to anyone. But people who made it to the 90-year-old mark demonstrated grit to work through it and accept the worst—even the loss of a spouse. The same participant in the Cilento study who had…

EXCERPT; “Coffee was the first thing I thought about when I woke up and sometimes the last thing I thought about before bed. I knew that was a telltale sign of addiction—but a socially acceptable one in this case, and…

My dad had a heart attack and died at 48. My mom live to be over 105. I used to say I just wanted to make it to 50 and outlive my dad. Time went by, and I learned to…

He was our pastor at a crucial time in my childhood. As I grew all sorts of ways, so did my respect and appreciation for him. When I was ordained as a Deacon in the United Methodist Church, he wrote…

Tom Fuerst, friend and colleague, drops wisdom here —- I cannot tell you the joy it brings me when I’m walking around downtown Memphis and one of my unhoused friends yells out, “PASTOR! PASTOR!” Then they walk up to me…

Whoa. EXCERPT: “What excites me is finding different ways of studying the cosmos that are telling you, hey, there’s surprising things that are going on,” SOURCE: https://www.wsj.com/science/violent-collision-of-two-black-holes-rippled-across-the-universe-9d355fcb?st=8FtyRH&reflink=article_copyURL_share