05/31/2026
🌹 Age Is Relative
I stopped to admire a rose that has been cultivated since before 1700.
Think about that.
More than three hundred years later, it is still blooming.
Then I noticed a beautiful classic automobile traveling down the road. Decades old and still moving forward.
It made me think about something.
Some things don’t lose value with age.
And neither do we.
Compared to the age of the sun, what is 60? What is 80? What is even 100 years?
A brief moment.
Yet somewhere along the way, many of us are taught to believe that aging means slowing down, giving up dreams, becoming less relevant, or simply waiting for life to happen to us.
I don’t accept that.
I believe we are meant to keep learning.
Keep growing.
Keep serving.
Keep exploring.
Keep dreaming.
The goal isn’t simply to add years to life. The goal is to add life to years.
I don’t want to spend my days focused on getting older. I want to spend them focused on becoming more fully alive.
This season I am studying, teaching, creating, learning about animal welfare, pet nutrition, flower essences, emotional healing, and the connection between body, mind, spirit, nature, and the animals who share this journey with us.
There are still places to go.
There are still people to help.
There are still dreams waiting to be lived.
Like the ancient rose, may we continue to bloom.
Not because we are young.
But because we are alive.
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