How do you live well into your second century? 114-year-old Bernando LaPallo, Jr. has some suggestions. Looking at his supple skin and hearing him talk, you may guess that he is perhaps around 70 years old–if that. He has a cane but hardly uses it as he vibrantly saunters through the room with a healthy dose of charm and charisma. I met him when he was honored at the 4th Annual Senior Awards in Phoenix, Arizona on September 25, 2015 where 97-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch also received an award.
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Share Scraps of Wisdom – Italian writer Umberto Eco said, “What we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
QUOTE CARD: “Move, breathe, play…
pump up the volume of your brain cells.”
-Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
QUOTE CARD: “Life is in the living – not necessarily in the planning or doing – but simply the being.”
-Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Dream, Pen In Hand – As Sarah Ban Breathnach said: “Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.”
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Climb Up High – It’s been said, “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
QUOTE CARD: “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
-Unknown
