This is a great website I just found. Daryn Kagan used to be a CNN anchor and she resigned to start her own news venture. It's an online news site with the subtitle "Show the world what's possible!". I really like it and it does what I was hoping to do here...remind people that life does work out and we don't need any news other than good news.
This story just tickled my insides. It reminds me of my grandma so much -- although my grandma is a Twins fan. Alice is a Red Sox fan and never misses a game. She knows all the players and has opinions about the Yankees. She loves the game of baseball.
When she turned 100 she decided she would like to throw out the first pitch for the Red Sox. Why not? She loved baseball and she was certainly one of their most long standing fans. She just turned 103 years old, but last fall, her dream came true.
You gotta watch Alice as she lives her dream with humor, excitement, and a very classy form of bravado. What an inspiration.
I read recently a study about a group that was looking at the connection between happiness and aging. They looked at journals written by nuns. Basically, what they found was that happy people live longer. The nuns that wrote more postively in their journal, lived an average of 7 to 11 years longer than their peers.
Watch Alice in the Daryn Kagan video above. Based on happiness and on her good health, it appears that Alice has another 20 years ahead of her.
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