The saying is, “All good things come to an end.” A fuller truth is that all things come to an end. Somewhere else on these pages I quoted the old saying that the light you see at the end of the tunnel is the headlight on a train heading in your direction. At this point, […]
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Posted July 1, 2021 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 1 July 2021 July 1st, 2021 | Tags: all good things, chosing, clock, clock keeps on ticking, death, downhill, driving, friends, good things, habits, inevitability of death, light at the end of the tunnel, luck, lucky ones, mountain, old enough, physical activities, running, safe, select the best path, stay on your feet, teaching, ticking, Vietnam, younger | Category: Monthly News, Uncategorized | Comments are closed Posted November 16, 2014 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 16 November 2014 Although I do not have a coy mistress, I increasingly find myself contemplating Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress”. The poem is probably the best-known carpe diem, or “seize the day,” poem in English literature. The main theme of the poem is the need to take advantage of today because time passes quickly, and […] November 16th, 2014 | Tags: 60s and 70s, action, aging, Andrew Marvell, attitudes, awareness, behaviors, carpe diem, chewing, choosing, Christmas, coy mistress, death, diet, digesting, digestion, drinkers, dying, eating, exercise, exercising, healthful, heart failure, Jim Fixx, lifestyle, living well, Martin Luther King, meditation, natural causes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, poem, running, seize the day, seizing, silence, sitting in silence, smokers, smoking, striking while the iron is hot, The Last Leaf, vacation | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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