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Proof We’re the Wise Ones
by Jeff Wozer
Liv Fun: Vol 5 – Issue 4
Yes, without question, we, the 50 and older crowd, are infinitely wiser than the rest. My hunches support this. I don’t have the exact figures, but I’m guessing the number of people 50 and older with face tattoos, compared to the number of people younger than 50 with face tattoos, should serve as firm proof.
Another supporting hunch, the keystone of my bias, is that we bear hug what Confucius meant by, “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Unlike those younger in age, we recognize the virtues of simplicity. There is a high-white purity behind it. Less truly is more. This age-earned understanding frees us from mindlessly following society’s current compulsion to muddle life and find it necessary — and I say this both literally and figuratively — to reinvent the color wheel.
Thanks to today’s clothing industry there’s no longer a color consensus. What’s tan to you and me may be called midnight eggnog to one company and dried sandcastle beige to another. Our optical world has been purged of its simplicity.
I stopped ordering from a favorite Wyoming-based outdoor company in protest of the inanity of its colors. Teal is called ocean depths. Black is tap shoe. And gray, depending on jacket type, is either smoked pearl or Eifel Tower. Why? What’s the need for this? It only complicates life and may even put us at risk. If I witnessed three armed bank robbers dressed in black flee in a gray SUV and described them to police as three men dressed in tap shoe driving an Eifel Tower SUV with ocean depths wheel rims, I’d be arrested as an accessory.
Society’s crazed need to clutter life with confusion also grips beverage flavors. The naiveté of basing flavors on time-honored tastes — orange, grape, cherry — has been purged by the Huns of marketing in favor of flavors based on attitude and image. Quenching one’s thirst has become secondary to quenching one’s ego.
Liv Fun
by Leisure Care
Winter 2016
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True Southern Style
by Beverly Ingle
There is something uniquely perfect about the wisdom passed down from mother to daughter in the South. Sure, mothers share their wisdom with their daughters in all parts of our country and have been doing so for generations. But if that wisdom doesn’t include when and where to wear pearls — real pearls — and how old you must be for those pearls to be an appropriate choice, all that can be said really is, “You poor thing.”
Strength of a Woman
by Jessica McCurdy Crooks
We look at a woman, and most of us notice her physical attributes: how she dresses, her hairstyle, or how she carries herself. On closer look, we realize that none of these are really her true embodiment. She is so much more than these outward expressions or signs … yet the wise woman somehow seems to know that the two are inextricably linked.
Proof We’re the Wise Ones
by Jeff Wozer
Yes, without question, we, the 50 and older crowd, are infinitely wiser than the rest. My hunches support this. I don’t have the exact figures, but I’m guessing the number of people 50 and older with face tattoos, compared to the number of people younger than 50 with face tattoos, should serve as firm proof.