It's what I thought recently as I walked my dog around
the trail at Otto Armleder Park as an in-line skater floated by,
trotting canine at her side.
Why not? I'd
skated before, first on clunky four-wheelers clamped to my hard-soled
shoes as a kid, then on in-line skates with my own children 30 years
later.
But when we down-sized several years ago I unloaded
them along with deflated basketballs and dented snow saucers.
"I could do it again," I thought. So what if I'm older?
So I asked for a pair of skates for Mother's Day and my boys obliged. I
know I'm going to have to take it slow, deck myself out in pads and go
the distance.
And that's what this issue is about — not letting age get in the way of life.
Take
the age 65-plus softball players. Prepared to watch geezers
huffing and puffing around bases, I was impressed at their fitness as
they smacked the ball with conviction and skillfully fielded balls.
That's can-do fun.
Or take Paul Bouldin, teaching driving in
his early 70s, and Rosemary Schneider who learned to drive at 66.
That's can-do determination.
Then
there's Phil Nuxhall who turned his passion for Spring
Grove's
artistic value into a second career and a book. Donna Speigel, is a
successful retailer who championed a special-needs
grandson by establishing and financing a school for others like him,
yet still finds time to rumba for charity despite a repaired hip.
That's can-do persistence.
— Joy W. Kraft, Editor
