A Soulful Journey

Charles Thierry was born in 1850 and practiced his silversmith trade in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until the age of 93.  Every day he took long, vigorous walks in the country, a habit that he kept up after his retirement.  At the age of 103 he contracted influenza and had a stormy convalescence.  He  was then seen by Dr. Paul Dudley White, who urged him to resume his daily walks, regardless of the weather.  Thierry recovered but later died of pneumonia at 108 years of age, largely due to his own negligence.  -Norman Cousins Get up and get out.  Enjoy God's many gifts that are all around you.

When Pablo Casals was quite aged, feeble and frail, he arose every morning barely able to take single halting steps.  His young wife had to assist him as an aide.  After his morning ritual of paying Bach, he was like a new man, rejuvenated and like a man having shed twenty years from his life.  - told by Norman Cousins Follow your dreams and loves.  Practice the gifts with which God has endowed you.  Use them often and well and joy will be yours.

Albert Schweitzer employed humor as a  form of equatorial therapy, a way of reducing the temperatures and the humidity and the tensions."   -Norman Cousins