The Eagles
Sunday, September 20, 2015
My seventieth birthday day is a week from today. I am not planning a whole lot since I am going to be celebrating it with my friends and family in late November. It will be much cooler by then and the heat won't be too shocking for those relatives and friends who are coming from out of the area to help me celebrate. On my birthday, next Sunday, I will probably go to my favorite restaurant, The Outback, and have a porterhouse steak. I don't have a steak too often, maybe once or twice a year. I love meat and look forward to this and this is definitely a super treat. Meat has always been a treat. Now that I can afford it, I find that I don't eat meat it as often. When I was growing up we were very poor and our main source of protein were beans. We had meat but it was very rare. When we had meat it was usually meat in tacos. Many times we had beans and tortillas for breakfast, beans and tortillas for lunch with potatoes and Kool-Aid and then beans and tortillas or "fideo" for dinner. I don't remember a time that we ever went hungry to bed. There was always a pot of beans and and a stack of tortillas on the table. This was common knowledge among my friends and "tios" and "tias." Seems like everyone came to our home hungry and left satisfied.
My dogs and I went for a short walk today, not my usual long one since I got out a little bit later than usual and it is hotter. I have to go out by 6:30 a.m. or 7:00 a.m. I only did 4232 steps, this is far below my daily goal of 10,000 steps. On Sundays I always watch the 90 minutes CBS program "Sunday Morning." This is a program that I have missed very few times since it's inception in 1979. I have also tried not to miss "60 Minutes", which airs on Sunday evenings. This is a program that has been on TV since 1968. These are 2 of the programs that I really enjoy watching on regular television. I always learn something from each of these programs. I try to keep a notebook handy when I watch these programs.
The "Sunday" program this morning had some very interesting segments especially the one with Glenn Frey of "The Eagles." Do you realize that "The Eagles" have been playing since 1971. I came to California in 1969 right after I graduated from college in Arizona. All the musicians from this group are pushing 60 years, They look different but the sound as good as ever and they still sell out their concerts. This segment was more about Glenn Frey than about "The Eagles." I liked what Glenn said when he quoted T.S. Elliott. He said, "We return to where we first started and know the place for the first time." Glenn went back to his hometown, back to his roots to try to find himself after all the success that he has had. Seems to me that he feels incomplete, he is still searching for something, trying to know the place and the people that he never was really familiar with. Seems that when I was young I was in such a hurry to leave my hometown behind. I don't think that I ever really got to know Douglas.
I think that is what I am doing with this blog. I am writing about being seventy but I am going back to my roots to try to figure out what makes me tick in my seventies. The more I write about the here-and-now, the more I think about my past, my youth, my early years and how those early years in Douglas molded me and made me what I am now, I know that I am going to be seventy, I look in the mirror and I know that I am seventy but I think that I am 18. My outside has changed, I am grayer, a little heavier, not as much hair, but I still think young, that has not changed.
Next up is, The Pope Is Coming To America." or "My Grandson Starts His College Life."
Stay healthy my friends!!
My seventieth birthday day is a week from today. I am not planning a whole lot since I am going to be celebrating it with my friends and family in late November. It will be much cooler by then and the heat won't be too shocking for those relatives and friends who are coming from out of the area to help me celebrate. On my birthday, next Sunday, I will probably go to my favorite restaurant, The Outback, and have a porterhouse steak. I don't have a steak too often, maybe once or twice a year. I love meat and look forward to this and this is definitely a super treat. Meat has always been a treat. Now that I can afford it, I find that I don't eat meat it as often. When I was growing up we were very poor and our main source of protein were beans. We had meat but it was very rare. When we had meat it was usually meat in tacos. Many times we had beans and tortillas for breakfast, beans and tortillas for lunch with potatoes and Kool-Aid and then beans and tortillas or "fideo" for dinner. I don't remember a time that we ever went hungry to bed. There was always a pot of beans and and a stack of tortillas on the table. This was common knowledge among my friends and "tios" and "tias." Seems like everyone came to our home hungry and left satisfied.
My dogs and I went for a short walk today, not my usual long one since I got out a little bit later than usual and it is hotter. I have to go out by 6:30 a.m. or 7:00 a.m. I only did 4232 steps, this is far below my daily goal of 10,000 steps. On Sundays I always watch the 90 minutes CBS program "Sunday Morning." This is a program that I have missed very few times since it's inception in 1979. I have also tried not to miss "60 Minutes", which airs on Sunday evenings. This is a program that has been on TV since 1968. These are 2 of the programs that I really enjoy watching on regular television. I always learn something from each of these programs. I try to keep a notebook handy when I watch these programs.
The "Sunday" program this morning had some very interesting segments especially the one with Glenn Frey of "The Eagles." Do you realize that "The Eagles" have been playing since 1971. I came to California in 1969 right after I graduated from college in Arizona. All the musicians from this group are pushing 60 years, They look different but the sound as good as ever and they still sell out their concerts. This segment was more about Glenn Frey than about "The Eagles." I liked what Glenn said when he quoted T.S. Elliott. He said, "We return to where we first started and know the place for the first time." Glenn went back to his hometown, back to his roots to try to find himself after all the success that he has had. Seems to me that he feels incomplete, he is still searching for something, trying to know the place and the people that he never was really familiar with. Seems that when I was young I was in such a hurry to leave my hometown behind. I don't think that I ever really got to know Douglas.
I think that is what I am doing with this blog. I am writing about being seventy but I am going back to my roots to try to figure out what makes me tick in my seventies. The more I write about the here-and-now, the more I think about my past, my youth, my early years and how those early years in Douglas molded me and made me what I am now, I know that I am going to be seventy, I look in the mirror and I know that I am seventy but I think that I am 18. My outside has changed, I am grayer, a little heavier, not as much hair, but I still think young, that has not changed.
Next up is, The Pope Is Coming To America." or "My Grandson Starts His College Life."
Stay healthy my friends!!
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