| Boomers: How many times have you surprised | | | | remember playing Trivial Pursuit with my aunt. I |
| yourself with something you thought you didn't | | | | was in my thirties, she in her late seventies. |
| know, but you did! In midlife we sometimes begin | | | | Everyone else was in their twenties and |
| to worry about loss of memory. How many | | | | absolutely certain they knew more than any two |
| times have you gone into a room, only to not | | | | of us combined. We paired up and I chose my |
| remember why you went in there in the first | | | | aunt as partner. Good thing to. When it came to |
| place? Or where are those keys you keep losing? | | | | movie stars, Broadway musicals, sports teams of |
| Just as surprising however are all the things you | | | | the mid 1900's she was an encyclopedia! We beat |
| do remember. It could be the name of a state | | | | the other teams, hands down. Of course if the |
| capital you suddenly remembered when you and | | | | game had been anything other than the first |
| your friends were looking at travel magazines, | | | | edition which was published back in the early |
| planning your next trip to Yellowstone National | | | | 1980's we would have been stumped. |
| Park. Who knew that Cheyenne is the Capital of | | | | |
| Wyoming? Somewhere in the deep recesses of | | | | Never underestimate how much you know, |
| your brain that small factoid came out just when | | | | Boomers. Every day you add to your library of |
| you needed it. | | | | wisdom and knowledge. Sometimes it takes a |
| You have lots of surprises inside! Lots of wisdom. | | | | little while to dig down and find the fact you are |
| And the older you get, the more wisdom you find | | | | looking for. But that's because there's so much |
| within. Every midlifer has stories to tell. I | | | | there to dig through! |