<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Learning-From-Life on Late Blooms</title><link>/categories/learning-from-life/</link><description>Recent content in Learning-From-Life on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/categories/learning-from-life/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Celebrating Life - Birth Days &amp; Death Days</title><link>/posts/celebrating-life-birth-days-death-days/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/celebrating-life-birth-days-death-days/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Birthdays are celebrations of life when you are present to celebrate and can be actively involved in the celebration.  A &amp;ldquo;Celebration of Life&amp;rdquo; for you happens when you&amp;rsquo;re no longer around for the celebration - you&amp;rsquo;re dead.  (Jean)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thankfully, I&amp;rsquo;m around for this year&amp;rsquo;s celebration of my birthday today.  I have been actively involved in expressing the way in which I want to spend this birthday.  At times, my life&amp;rsquo;s journey has felt like being on a  roller-coaster ride and other times like a cruise ship sailing smoothly along.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Youthful Aging (Interview)</title><link>/posts/youthful-aging-interview/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/youthful-aging-interview/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m pleased to introduce my good friend, Cynthia, who is seventy-eight years young. She has always been a very positive influence on me in her outlook on life and her youthful enthusiasm for living.  I wanted to know what was her secret to &amp;ldquo;youthful aging.&amp;rdquo;  What were the life lessons she learned along the way that might help me with my own aging process?  For those of you who have followed my posts, you may have noticed that I like to highlight my friends.  I have done posts on the skills, talents, and abilities, or whatever moved me about some of my friends - and this post is just another example.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Life Lessons of 2016</title><link>/posts/life-lessons-of-2016/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/life-lessons-of-2016/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This year has gone by very quickly.  It feels like it was just the other day I was preparing for Christmas 2015.  &amp;ldquo;Time flies when you&amp;rsquo;re having fun.&amp;rdquo;  Well, to tell the truth, it wasn&amp;rsquo;t all fun.  Life has its challenges and there are always valuable lessons to learn as we spend our days here on Earth.  For anyone thinking that lessons stop when you leave school, I have news for you.  They begin on the day you are born and continue until the day you take your last breath. I am 67 and learning many valuable lessons at this stage of my life. As the saying goes: &amp;ldquo;It ain&amp;rsquo;t over till it&amp;rsquo;s over.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>