DO means DOn’t regret the Past,
RE means Raise your hopes to last.
MI means Meet each day with Glee,
FArther than the eyes can see.
SO much to love just waits to bring
Tra LA LA to those who sing.
EsTEem your Age, be brave and bold
DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DOld
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
How To Attract Love
Have you ever noticed how wonderful things happen when you least expect them? The same is true for love. Love has to find you.
How? By being your wonderful, authentic self. It is no good to pretend to be someone else, because you will not attract the right love if you do. You want to be loved as you, with all your qualities and your faults. You want to be accepted for who you are. So just be yourself! Love yourself. Get on with life, doing what you love and loving what you do.
When you are happy and enjoying life, you become attractive. You have an inner glow and excitement that attracts other people to you positively, the kind of people who will appreciate you for who you are.
Love Me
Each of us wants to be loved. Love is necessary for our health and well-being. Scientific research with babies stresses the importance, indeed need, for love and attention in our early years. The research shows that love and touch directly impact a baby’s physical, emotional and mental development.
Yes, love is essential to us, and at all ages.
The most important love is our self love. I don’t mean narcissistic love, but genuine acceptance and love of who you are. Before you can truly love others you must love yourself.
You may cry out to others “love me”, but how can they find you lovable if you do not display and portray that love within yourself? This need to love ourself is crucial at every age and stage of life.
Two difficult periods for recognizing our self-worth and loving ourselves are during our adolescent years when we are defining who we are and what we want, and then again when we reach our retirement years and are redefining who we are and what we want.
May you love yourself at every age and stage of life, knowing that you are lovable and worthy of love.
May your love for others overflow into all areas of your life.
May you embrace all that comes your way with confidence and love.
May love fill your heart today and every day of the year.
I love you!
Bonnie Fatio
Celebrate Love!
What an ideal time to celebrate love! – Valentine’s Day.
Love is at the basis of all that is good. It is the foundation of peace and understanding. It is the fuel of making this world a better place for each of us.
Love is the force that gives Age Esteem its pizzazz.
We all strive to love and be loved at every age. The need for love is a continuum through life. Love may take on different dimensions as we experience different stages of life, but it remains a constant.
As we look towards this day of love, Valentine’s Day, let’s celebrate love. – Love of self, love of family, love of friends, love of those who we do not yet know and yes, even love for our enemies.
Celebrate love!
Celery is a versatile vegetable, which has green stalks and white bulbs. Both varieties are very nutritious and can be prepared in various ways, either cooked or raw. The bulb is consumed most often in wintertime with other cooked vegetables. Green celery stalks are added to salads, stuffed as an appetizer or cooked in small pieces to make a decorative vegetable accompaniment to a meal.
Celery is a very ancient vegetable and was highly respected in antiquity because of its virtues. These virtues are especially interesting to us as we age. Celery is known to be a diuretic as well as a stimulant and anti-rhumatismal food. It is rich in potassium, good for lowering blood pressure, and is rich in fibers, vitamins and minerals, all essential for a healthy body. Studies have shown that celery has various anti-cancer compounds as well.
In addition it is one of the vegetables that is very low in calories.
Always available in food shops, celery is convenient to have on hand in order to enrich your meals and enhance your health.
Grandma Nature
Be My Valentine
There is no better way
Than Saint Valentine’s Day
To remember that Love’s not a Dream.
If you’re young or you’re old
It’s so nice to be told
You are special and highly esteemed!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Bonnie Ross-Parker, 67, Atlanta, GA (originally from Hartford, CT)
I love the idea of AgeEsteem. I think of being proud to be where you are whatever your age is and having that kind of self-confidence and that belief in yourself that doesn’t have anything to do with age or with your chronological place in the world. It’s just how you feel about yourself.
There are concerns about aging. I guess I would have to say that my greatest concern is that I won’t be able to get everything done that I want to do before I pass. There is so much more travel and so many more experiences I would like to have. I’ve been moving into the closing of my 6th decade, and it makes me realize that time is so short and so valuable and there is so much more to do and so much to experience. That would be my greatest concern about age. With my own experience with age I can say that I just love where I am. I wouldn’t trade youth for experience under any circumstances.
Bonnie’s Tips: Feeling good about yourself is an inside job. It has to come from living a fulfilling life, and I am there. I express gratitude every day. I feel blessed every day. I feel fulfilled in the work that I do. I meditate. I work out. I do what I can to feel good about myself. It has nothing to do with my age. It has to do with just wanting to have the most energy and the most out of every single moment of every single day. So for me it’s not at all about age or aging. It’s more about enriching my life day to day and making it the best it can be at any given time.
As far as advice is concerned, I would just say to live each moment. I know that sounds trite. Everybody says live each day as it comes, but it is really getting the most out of the life you have, getting the most out of the experiences, making the most out of relationships, touching people’s lives, making a difference in somebody else’s life. I think you look within to be fulfilled and not look for happiness from the outside with the new car, the new house, the new whatever. Instead, just know that you are contributing and making a difference in the world. If you don’t feel that you are, then find a way to do that through volunteering, through a warm shoulder, through a compassionate ear, whatever you can do. It is the relationships that are fostered along the way that is most important.
It is interesting that the word journey has the word our in it. I think the journey is really a collective energy.
Bonnie Ross-Parker is a professional speaker and author and creator if the national organization, The Joy of Connecting.
We all know about calcium, how good and necessary it is for strong bones and teeth. We all probably know as well in what foods high quantities of calcium are found such as milk, cheese and yogurt among others.
Latest studies show that calcium is also helpful in maintaining the arteries and a healthy heart. It is the only natural nutrient which plays this double role. In fact, it is known to lower blood pressure. This wonder mineral also aids in weight loss, eliminating bad fat.
However, most recent research in various countries and through many tests show that in order for calcium to be assimilated in the body and deposited where it should be, in the bones and the blood, and perform its miracles, vitamin K2 is needed. Where is vitamin K2 found?
For many years the Japanese have known the benefits of menaquinones which is found in vitamin K2. The highest amount is in a food called natto (fermented soja) which they eat in abundance. In other parts of the world where this food is not consumed one can get vitamin K2 in the following foods: dark green vegetables, meat, eggs and high fat dairy products.
A balanced diet, by eating a variety of food, will supply enough vitamin K2 so that one will feel healthy and strong because of the assimilation of calcium in the body.
Grandma Nature
