Growing Old With Age Esteem
One Key to Life
(as we are told)
Is aging best by growing old.
Growing wise and staying bright,
Being strong and showing might.
Spend your years by growing UP!
Fill to brim each daily “cup”!
Grow, not old but ageless, and
With Age Esteem you’ll be just grand!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Aging Has Changed
A long time ago
Or so it does seem,
We endured growing old
But without AgeEsteem.
We drooped and we sagged
With the burden of Time,
We stooped and we dragged
With heedless decline.
But now all has changed,
Our future is bright!
Our age is arranged
By the Esteem in sight!
We can face every day
With delight, NOT dismay,
And I hasten to say:
Two New Hips and Hooray!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Thank You!
Thank You, and you, and you, and you,
For friendships old and friendships new,
For those to love in myriad ways,
For lessons learned and festive days,
For Health and Happiness galore,
For Earth’s rich bounty, and much more,
For songs to learn and ones once sung
For growing old while feeling young!
Thanks for having time to live,
Finding verbal gifts to give.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
A Film For Age Esteem – Quartet
Quartet is a delightful film that openly addresses, with humor, the trials of growing old. Directed by Dustin Hoffman, now 75, it stars a quartet of age-esteemers: Maggie Smith 78, Billie Connolly 71, Pauline Collins 73, and Tom Courtenay 76.
Together they prove that age is not for sissies (famous quote from Bette Davis). At the same time they prove that how you live your age is your choice. They each choose to live it manifesting many of the traits of age esteem.
No, age is not for sissies. Choose how you want to live your age.
Bonnie Fatio
Life’s Garden
Growing old (or growing young!)
The keywords are “to grow”.
Hum or sing the songs you sung
Those ageless years ago!
Growth of mind and spirits will
Enrich each precious day,
Plant life’s garden path until
You are your own bouquet.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Why?
Why is it that we are taught to think
That growing old is past the brink,
And that the rest is all down hill
Without a means to prove one’s will?
Age Esteem will return your pride
And put a ZIP into your stride
So each day try to do your best:
Aim for esteem, pizzazz and zest!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
With Age Esteem you’re ready for
The Tricks and Treats at your front door;
Take off your mask of dread: Be Bold!
Say “Boo” to the task of growing old.
Cornucopias and sweet rewards
Find those who are always looking towards,
All the years to come, and in between,
And never back to what might have been.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Two Thousand and Twelve,
Imagine! It’s here!
The start of another
Wonderful year.
Make resolutions and
Make them to last;
Live in the Present,
Inspired by the Past.
Growing old is not as bad as it seems;
Model each day by the book Age Esteem!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Growing Old
Why is it that one seems to think
That growing old is past the brink,
And that the rest is all down hill
Without a way to win one’s will?
Age Esteem will return one’s pride
And put a ZIP into your stride
So each day try to do your best:
Aim for Perfection, and with Zest!
Written by Alexandra Taylor after the chapter “Adding Pizzazz To Age” in the book
AgeEsteem: Growing A Positive Attitude Toward Aging
by Bonnie Lou Fatio
