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MEMOIRS OF MY
PAST LIFE
Talking about things
that I can remember about the past of my life...
By Ray
White
And in the end it's not the years in
your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham
Lincoln
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Welcome to Live Beyond
80. This website was designed to honor those
who have lived to be 80 or more years and are still
actively enjoying life.
We will also see if we can learn some
lessons from their life experiences. Some future topics
will include:
Ten Rules for Happier Living: From Our Daily
Bread
- Give something away.
- Do a kindness.
- Give thanks always.
- Work with vim and vigor.
- Visit the elderly and learn from their
experience.
- Look intently into the face of a baby and marvel.
- Laugh often—it’s life’s lubricant.
- Pray to know God’s
way.
- Plan as though you will live forever—you will.
- Live as though today is your last day on earth.
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| Eric Shackle is
OhmyNews's oldest reporter. At the age of 87, he's chasing
stories with the enthusiasm of someone 50 years his junior
then writing them in an easy-to-read style honed by six
decades of journalistic experience. More
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| Eric Shackle, then 20, wears the uniform of one
of Australia's few remaining cavalry units at the outbreak of
World War II. Army commanders soon decided that horses had no
role in mechanized warfare, so the troopers had to swap their
horses for armored vehicles, and their emu-plumed hats for
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| ©2007 Eric
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Tomato grower Ray White, 93, is
America's oldest blogger Tennessee tomato
grower Ray White (93) is America's oldest blogger. He's three months
older than that other veteran blogger, Donald Crowdis, of Toronto,
Canada, who turned 93 on Christmas Eve. In the last three years Ray
has posted more than a thousand blogs. He's only a year younger than
the world's oldest blogger, Allan Lööf, of Norrköping, Sweden.
You'll enjoy reading Ray's
blog. 0701
Thought's of the day from Ray's
Blog:
" There is no better
exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting
someone up."
" Life just lived to
satisfy yourself never satisfies
anyone." |
