Wise Women,
Welcome.....
Thankyou for joining us here at our personal blogs. In fact we love having you here. Our blogs are all about inspiration and good old entertainment. Our mission is to try to encourage women of our generation to think about themselves and the impact they can continue to make.
We know that you are, on the whole, busy doing things, but we just don’t want you to forget the importance of every single second. Oh no!!!!
MY TAKE ON THINGS
We, Wise women, are at the beginning of making the most of our lives just now. That’s right, Now!
Our kids have grown and left home and our husbands are most likely capable of adapting to ‘less pandering’. Did I say that! Well, it is true. Most of us at our age have done our stint of managing it all and so missed out on carving professional or strong career paths.
I am pleased to see that young women these days are busy making sure their careers are strong and as important as their partners. That was the missing ingredient back then.
Sure, there was equality within the marriage, but having a career was just not considered vital. You had kids and that was your total priority. You propped up your husband as he pursued his goals and dreams, or you and he built a business. But you knew your place was kids first. And funnily enough, it wasn’t really bad being in that place. It was just different from these days.
So what happens now!
We arrive at fifty and want to start living!! Yes we do! We, Wise Women, are an untapped force of desire, imagination and have dreams to fulfil. Watch out world, here we come!!!
What we have found at Wise Womens World is many women start making their mark at 50. Suddenly they take a good old look at their lives and wonder what they have accomplished.
Hey, you out there - the starting gun has fired.
You are off and running….
We know women who have begun climbing mountains, started writing books, become International body building champions, have begun Master’s degrees or PhDs and even started a website for older women for goodness sake!!!!
I know many who arrive at 50 and wonder what they could do to make life more dazzling. Is that you? Have you wondered?
But when you look at men, they seem to be looking forward to retirement. They have worked hard all their lives providing for their families and they think they have sacrificed their own good time in doing so!!!
They THINK that retirement is what beckons them and that’s when their life BEGINS. Begins to what you might ask!!!
Thank God for golf!!! It seems to be the one thing the women and the men agree on! A great ‘older persons’ sport and there are benefits all around. Exercise, you can play together or you can have hours apart (this is keenly desired by wives I believe), it encourages outside friendships and even friendly competition playing at clubs.
So I am thinking that maybe women of my age were pretty lucky. We got to rear our kids fairly comfortably and now are itching to make the most of our lives.
And thanks to medical wonders and longevity of the baby boomers, we have a whole lot of time to make the most of it.
Anyhow, I have gone off the track…….back to turning fifty!!! I can’t stress enough how important and significant that moment can be.
If we take a good hard look at the way statistics are moving and we will see there is a very good chance we will live to beyond 100. That means there is at least 30 years of valuable contribution to give, and that only gets us to 80 and we still have 20 years up our sleeve.
If medical research goes the way it is, we might be in the most amazing shape when we blow out our 100 candles. Yes, folks, we will most likely be“Super-Centenarians”
So look hard for what will make your life sing;
seek out what inspires you to greater things;
and follow your dreams.
Make sure you do!
HIGH ROAD TO ADVENTURE
Mumsie and Roslyn take in the heat in Israel
Our fantastic adventurer, Roslyn Motter, is having the time of her life in Turkey and Israel.
Greatly hindered by foreign keyboards she has managed to send back a few reports to let me know she is OK. Well, before she went we were worried about the weather, war, kidnapping – Oh the list goes on. But all is well and you can check out her journey so far. I am dying to hear the full reports.
MY WEEK
Miss Charli - Junior Masterchef
FAMILY WAYS: We babysat Miss Charli overnight and what a delight that was. She would have to be the most adorable little girl in the world, of course. Well, I know, many of you are grandmothers and understand the joys. In the space of 2 weeks we have caught up with everyone it seems – so choc full of family news, boring to you, but delicious to me!
Beautiful Driver on Road
WINNER OF THE WEEK: My daughter Bri! She has finally got her driver’s licence at the age of 31. I can’t tell you how proud I am. I know how fabulous she will feel as I was 25 when I got mine. At that age I had three little kids under my wing and it literally gave me wings……….I hope it sets her free too!
THE THEATRE: Oresteia by Aeschylus, in a new adaptation by Tom Wright
Mr G and I ducked into the city to see Oresteia, at the Wharf Theatre. The current artistic directors of this Theatre are the fabulous Cate Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton and no, we didn’t see them swanning around. Damn!
Anyhow, this play was acted by the permanent ensemble of actors, ‘The Residents’, who I must say performed brilliantly in one of the most riveting and powerful dramas of all time.
This play is a momentous and epic Greek tragedy. And so the story begins…….
A flickering light appears on the horizon. A fire. A sign!
After ten years of fighting in Troy - ten years during which Argos has been suspended in time, awaiting word of victory or defeat, awaiting the return of its men – the beacon glows on the horizon signalling a victorious end to the war.
Inside the palace Clytemnestra eagerly awaits the homecoming of her triumphant king Agamemnon. Outwardly her demeanour is one of joy and elation but a dark rage underlies the sweet smiles of jubilation.
As her husband sails home Clytemnestra prepares to exact a horrifying revenge on the man who, in order to win this war, sacrificially slit the throat of his own daughter.
Clytemnestra kills him in a horrifying way, much to everyone’s horror, and then Agamemnon’s long lost son arrives on the scene, and then he kills his mother, Clytemnestra, in an equally horrifying way.
The theatre is small and intimate. The back wall of the stage had three opaque sliding doors. In and out of these doors the actors came and went. When Agamemnon was being bludgeoned to death, we could vaguely see what was happening through the glass……most graphic! And then the blood flowed across the stage as the story was continued to be told…
I had absolutely no idea what it was about before I went and I must say I was totally captivated as the story was quite something else as you can see. Not your quaint little romantic comedy that is for sure.
And the blurb did tell us :
Warning: Oresteia contains scenes depicting violence that may disturb some patrons.
So what they meant was, if you don’t like blood and gore, or families hacking each other to death, this play is probably not for you!
LANA’S WISEWEEK
Hurray, Lana is on a health kick and I am right behind her. She is certainly taking it seriously from the outset and if she sticks to her guns, she will be in fantastic shape before she knows it. Find out how
QUOTE
The quote this time is from the famous Irish playwrite George Bernard Shaw and I would love to know if he was directing these pretty forceful words too. Was it his wife, child, friend. Or was it his parent!!!!
This is the true joy in life,
the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap;
the being a force of nature
instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances
complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
UMMMM. I would hate to think he would say that to his wife!!! Those last two lines are harsh indeed but they would surely get the message across in an ironclad sort of a way!!!
My message to you is not so ironclad. Maybe he could have put it this way...
The true joy of life is;
You know the reason for being here is of incredible importance;
Living your whole life with such fervour that you know you haven’t wasted a single second
That you go with the flow
Instead of minding all things unpleasant
You are aware the world is not obliged to offer you happiness;
That happiness springs from within.
Have a simply gorgeous week until next time
Love
