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Never...

Never let others define your choices.

Never stay just because it's easier than leaving.

Never be dependent on anyone financially, emotionally or otherwise.

Never let others talk you out of something you know is right for you.

Never allow mediocrity. Period.

Never mistake fear for common sense.

Never be boring.

Never be less than you know you can be.

Never think about a "ceiling" where your goals are concerned and if you do, imagine it to be the fragile, breakable kind.

And mostly...

Never EVER give up.

Quote of the Day

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

~ Alice Walker ~

Why Aging Doesn't Suck, Reason #29 - Tilda Swinton

Because at 50, she is the face of iconic Scottish label Pringle whose successful relaunch has as much to do with Swinton's endorsement as it does their clothes.

Because she openly lives, well.. openly - juggling a committed, long term relationship with additional paramours should the mood strike her (which is exactly how she met her current boyfriend whilst still married), and nary a modicum of shame about her non-traditional lifestyle is evident anywhere.

Because she makes makes androgyny sexy and gender irrelevant whether it's her Flock of Seagulls inspired tresses, or the roles she chooses (she has played Mozart on stage, an Elizabethan nobleman in Orlando and an androgynous angel in Constantine).

Because she made this startlingly honest declaration much to the delight of mothers everywhere, "I think I enjoy my work now even more simply because it's even easier than it was. It sounds sacrilegious to say that anything's a delight when you're away from your children, but the truth is that it is refreshing to only have yourself to dress in the morning, and to lie diagonally across the bed. Making films, going round the world on tour - all these crazy things that were so difficult before are so much easier than breastfeeding twins for 14 months that frankly it is a delight."

Merry Christmas Bitches

Here's to defining ourselves by virtue of our integrity, character, style, wit, empathy, love, selflessness and friendship.

Here's to injecting each moment with truth, levity, honor, and passion.

Here's to reminding ourselves never to sit in judgment, monitor all thinking and steering the mind from fear to faith.

And finally, here's to wisdom, women and a good glass of wine.

All Herald V Magazine

The always exhilarating V Magazine launched it's Who Cares About Age issue - a knockout featuring Jane Fonda on the cover and a stunning editorial featuring 4 former supermodels, all of whom are well over 50, and all of whom continue to captivate with their ageless beauty, divine style and of course the intangible special sauce that makes some women just get better with age. Check it out.

http://www.vmagazine.com/2010/11/v66-winter-20102011-the-who-cares-about-age-issue/

Outrageous Story from the UK on an Aging TV Host

Countryfile presenter warned over wrinkles
5 November, 2010

Former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly was warned “to be careful with those wrinkles when high definition comes in” just nine months before she was dropped from the programme by the BBC, a tribunal has heard.

O’Reilly, 53, is suing the broadcaster for sex and age discrimination after losing her job when the show was moved to a primetime slot.

In a witness statement handed to the tribunal, she said comments by Countryfile’s director Dean Jones “sent a shiver down my spine” when he warned her the high definition could be “crunch time” for her BBC TV career in February 2008.

In the statement, she said: “I do not believe that a man would be asked about his wrinkles nor offered hair dye.

“It was clear to me that this was a reflection of the BBC’s view that women on TV needed to look young.”O’Reilly was told she would no longer be working on the rural affairs programme in November 2008.

She said she was “devastated” by the news that she and three other female presenters would lose their jobs when the show relaunched in April 2009 with Julia Bradbury, then 38, and Katie Knapman, then 36.

In her witness statement, she said she was not told why she would not have a role on the programme in its new prime-time slot, only that the show was being “refreshed”.

Three other female Countryfile presenters - Michaela Strachan, 42, Juliet Morris, 52, and Charlotte Smith, 44 - were also dropped from the show, O’Reilly said.

Meanwhile, the show’s main presenter John Craven, 68, and Adam Henson, who was in his 40s, were to be kept on with Ben Fogle, 35, who was given Country Tracks to present.

She added there was nothing in the new version of the show, which now airs at 7pm on Sunday nights, that she could not have done.

The programme is co-presented by Julia Bradbury and Matt Baker.

The tribunal is expected to hear from former BBC controller Jay Hunt, and will look at footage of Ms O’Reilly’s work along with current examples of the show.

The tribunal, which is expected to last 12 days, was adjourned to Friday to allow the bench to watch video footage.