by Steve Bonnel | Jul 28, 2022 | Wellness
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi If we want to preserve our health and live long, productive lives, we should look to our ancestral past. Retiring to an ease of life and leisure was not an option for...
by Steve Bonnel | Jul 28, 2022 | Wellness
“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years.”- Abraham Lincoln I recently watched a documentary titled, Some Kind of Heaven, about a sprawling Disney-esque retirement community called The Villages, located in...
by Steve Bonnel | Jun 23, 2022 | Wellness
Play: to do things for pleasure, as children do; to enjoy yourself, rather than work; to wield lightly and freely; to keep in motion. Oxford English Dictionary I consider myself an introvert. I was very shy as an adolescent and young adult, often avoiding...
by Steve Bonnel | Jun 23, 2022 | Wellness
“We must move our bodies or we begin to lose them… If we’re sluggish when young, we sacrifice full, independent, satisfying lives as we age. We grow frail when we might have been hearty, and sick when we might have been well”. Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times...
by Steve Bonnel | Jun 23, 2022 | Wellness
It’s time to rewrite the old narrative of retirement that implies settling into an ease of life as you age. Retirees should resist the proverbial lure of the rocking chair and continue to be active, productive and engaged with others and their communities. In fact, as...
by Steve Bonnel | May 23, 2022 | Wellness
The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. ~ John “The Penguin” Bingham Attempts at improving our health through rigid exercise or exclusion diet programs have failed most people, and for good reason. First, our bodies never...
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