Older People Can be Pretty Cool
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Meanderer
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Will the real George please stand up?
Luckily, in 1785,when Washington was 53, French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon visited him at his Mount Vernon residence. His mission was to take a life mask - a plaster cast of Washington’s face - which he would then use to create sculpture copies (below right). The mask was used to sculpt what’s known as “Washington’s Official Likeness” - a lifesize sculpture located in the Virginia state Capitol (below left).
"Lifesize sculpture of George Washington by Jean Antoine Houdon - located at the Virginia State Capitol. It is often referred to as George Washington’s Official Likeness."
"George Washington’s life mask, taken by Jean Antoine Houdon. Houdon used precise pupil and eye measurements to approximate the appearance of the eyes while open. Image courtesy of the Morgan Library and Museum."
Luckily, in 1785,when Washington was 53, French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon visited him at his Mount Vernon residence. His mission was to take a life mask - a plaster cast of Washington’s face - which he would then use to create sculpture copies (below right). The mask was used to sculpt what’s known as “Washington’s Official Likeness” - a lifesize sculpture located in the Virginia state Capitol (below left).
"Lifesize sculpture of George Washington by Jean Antoine Houdon - located at the Virginia State Capitol. It is often referred to as George Washington’s Official Likeness."
"George Washington’s life mask, taken by Jean Antoine Houdon. Houdon used precise pupil and eye measurements to approximate the appearance of the eyes while open. Image courtesy of the Morgan Library and Museum."
dilettante
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Something for Australians this fall:
Those two old buggers are pretty funny though.
Those two old buggers are pretty funny though.
Paco Dennis
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I'm going to sound really mean. I don't want to ever look like or dress like would be called an elderly person, and I have always hated that word. So, does that mean I have to die young? Too late..........Will the real George please stand up?
Luckily, in 1785,when Washington was 53, French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon visited him at his Mount Vernon residence. His mission was to take a life mask - a plaster cast of Washington’s face - which he would then use to create sculpture copies (below right). The mask was used to sculpt what’s known as “Washington’s Official Likeness” - a lifesize sculpture located in the Virginia state Capitol (below left).
"Lifesize sculpture of George Washington by Jean Antoine Houdon - located at the Virginia State Capitol. It is often referred to as George Washington’s Official Likeness."
"George Washington’s life mask, taken by Jean Antoine Houdon. Houdon used precise pupil and eye measurements to approximate the appearance of the eyes while open. Image courtesy of the Morgan Library and Museum."
Meanderer
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My post is about George Washington. The greatest freedom we have in our senior years is being able to dress ourselves. It's not a competition.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. I just didn't know where to fit my opinion in when the entire thread was about the "Elderly". I'll try to see if I can delete my post. Or if someone can tell me how to.
Meanderer
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That's OK, leave it. But the word "Elderly" is not in the thread title. It is to show that as older folks, we can still be cool, just by being ourselves. Enjoy! Many aging celebrities try dressing younger, as they age, but after a certain age....they are only fooling themselves. Maybe that's enough for them?
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And a lot of celebrities can afford expensive plastic surgery. Am I jealous? Probably And men have it better. They can be older and still look distinguished and even sexy.
Meanderer
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What Ben Franklin can Teach us
"At age 70, Franklin helped edit the Declaration of Independence. His most important revision appears early. Jefferson’s original draft reads, “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal.” An assertive pen stroke — most likely Franklin’s — struck through “sacred & undeniable,” replacing it with “self-evident.” We hold these truths to be self-evident."
"It might seem like a minor revision, a more concise wording of the same idea, but it is much more than that. Jefferson’s original wording appeals to religious authority. By revising the passage to read “self-evident,” Franklin invoked a different and, he believed, higher authority: human reason. Franklin saw what Jefferson, less than half his age, did not."
"Franklin stayed busy, always faithful to his tenet that when it came to public positions, one should “never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign.” He needed to remain relevant and useful. He needed to be needed. As for death, he rarely thought about it. “It has always been my maxim to live on as if I was to live always,” he once said. “It is with such feeling only that we can be stimulated to the exertions necessary to effect any useful purpose.”
"At age 70, Franklin helped edit the Declaration of Independence. His most important revision appears early. Jefferson’s original draft reads, “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal.” An assertive pen stroke — most likely Franklin’s — struck through “sacred & undeniable,” replacing it with “self-evident.” We hold these truths to be self-evident."
"It might seem like a minor revision, a more concise wording of the same idea, but it is much more than that. Jefferson’s original wording appeals to religious authority. By revising the passage to read “self-evident,” Franklin invoked a different and, he believed, higher authority: human reason. Franklin saw what Jefferson, less than half his age, did not."
"Franklin stayed busy, always faithful to his tenet that when it came to public positions, one should “never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign.” He needed to remain relevant and useful. He needed to be needed. As for death, he rarely thought about it. “It has always been my maxim to live on as if I was to live always,” he once said. “It is with such feeling only that we can be stimulated to the exertions necessary to effect any useful purpose.”
papa tiger
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You know the rest of the world, call it 23/24ths are on a different time zone.
If you can't stay up a 3 or so more hours what good are you at doing a job?
MSN
One just has to adjust the next couple of days for resting.
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growing old and feeble has its own run time. Its name is RETIRE ya Fool.
If you can't stay up a 3 or so more hours what good are you at doing a job?
MSN
One just has to adjust the next couple of days for resting.
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growing old and feeble has its own run time. Its name is RETIRE ya Fool.
