<?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>Growing-Older on Late Blooms</title><link>/tags/growing-older/</link><description>Recent content in Growing-Older on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/growing-older/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Ripened Experience: 70 Colorful Years</title><link>/posts/ripened-experience-70-colorful-years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/ripened-experience-70-colorful-years/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[caption id=&amp;ldquo;attachment_4351&amp;rdquo; align=&amp;ldquo;aligncenter&amp;rdquo; width=&amp;ldquo;956&amp;rdquo;]&lt;a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2019/Ripened-experience-70-colorful-years/i-ttrSjtV/0/LPT3dKhqfQ6Lt5mmsQjcSmCDFBBdGjKxj8X376Cg5/D/20181102_102605-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2019/Ripened-experience-70-colorful-years/i-ttrSjtV/0/LPT3dKhqfQ6Lt5mmsQjcSmCDFBBdGjKxj8X376Cg5/D/20181102_102605-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This should have read &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Leave A Little Sparkle Behind Wherever You Go.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Many people don&amp;rsquo;t live to see their 70th birthdays.  I&amp;rsquo;m one of the lucky ones you might say.   We do become more reflective as we age and this birthday finds me looking back over the years.  You may ask what has living all these years brought my way?   Surely, it&amp;rsquo;s brought what life brings to everyone of  us - ups and downs,  joys and sorrows,  good and bad experiences, and so much more along the way.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Growing Older</title><link>/posts/growing-older/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/growing-older/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s my 67th Birthday today.  I haven&amp;rsquo;t blogged for a while because my computer was hacked.  However, thankfully, it&amp;rsquo;s up and running now since my brother gave it a complete overhaul.  What an age we live in!  When I went to do a search on Google, there were all these images of cakes at the top of my screen.  I wondered which well-known person was having a Birthday today.  I moved over the image to see who it could be - lo and behold, it said:  Happy Birthday Jean!  For someone 67 years young, it was wonderful of Google to acknowledge my birthday in this way.  I am fortunate to live in this digital age and to have this kind of experience.  Growing older comes with wonderful surprises!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>