A very old Felixia belonging to Mr. Phillips at www.rachphillips.com (thank you)…maybe eating grass keeps you going!
Well, mama was reading me an article this morning about Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 90 (an amazing woman if ever there was one) and I started thinking about all the people mama tells me about who lived to be over 90 (Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, King Abdullah, Grandma Moses) and often over 100 (and I began wondering just what that means when in the past people used to clock out in their 50s and 60s and sometimes sooner and I thought that perhaps it’s because of the changes in our diets or exercise or cleaner air or keeping our brains stimulated by the internet or just plain evolving into longer-living anthros whether we like it or not!
It’s really amazing when you think of how many people live long, long productive and beautiful lives now.
Every amazing person in this picture is over 80, and the lady in orange is 98 and all are cutting a rug whenever possible! Mama says they are her mole rodels (a slip of the tongue of mama’s father-in-law in a fit of peak: “YOU KIDS BE NICE TO ME–I’m your MOLE RODEL!” Which ended the family feud with rollicking laughter…wish I had been there.
That darling woman in Italy who is 115 and whose hands, in a photo of her, look to be about 50, and who attributes it to no husband (!) and three raw eggs a day, says that she has never been to a hospital and won’t go even if she might have to and she lived in a small town with clean air and as I mentioned in another blog, her doc says he’d be passing the time reading a newspaper in his office if all his patients were like her.
So just what is it you anthros are doing differently? Any ideas? We kitties think about these things because we want someone to put kibble in our bowls for a long, long, long time and snuggle us regularly and let us cuddle up to legs at night or, in the case of one very good blogger I know, let us sit on their heads!
But I think about these things and would love some ideas from other kitties about why longevity has…well…lengthened, haha. Of course, we kitties don’t really have to worry about that.
We have NINE lives…
And I intend to live all nine of ’em doing what I do best…
Even us kitties are living longer too, Loulou! Enjoy your nine lives! 🙂
OH, BOY, maybe we have around 15 or so now!!!
We guess they live so long because … um, actually we have no idea. But it’s great they are living long happy lives.
Well, I just hope that ALL you guys at the Funny Farm live forever and ever. Or at least a long, long time so that Jan will have company on her chores and someone to stop her when she starts to fly…