Many thanks to Lizzi and her challenge to find 10 silver linings in the myriads of clouds swirling about. Lizzi’s focus is the aging process. Ha! She doesn’t know the half of it. My sister once shared this tidbit: “Remember that you look younger today than you ever will again.” Not much solace in that if you live to look young, which is an oxymoron but serves as silver lining #1.
I was remarking to a friend that I can’t use the biometric access for my iPhone because my fingerprints are nonexistent. “What happened to them?” she asked. “They’ve been worn away by time and dishwashing.” “Well, at least you can commit a crime without leaving fingerprints!” she replied. See? Silver lining #2.
I continued the conversation by suggesting that all devices should operate with retinal scans. No more passwords to remember. Then I thought about my deteriorating retinas. My friend suggested silver lining #3: “Better to have your thumb cut off than your eye removed!” Huh? It took me a moment to catch up to her crime-mobster-thinking.
Lizzi felt old because she caught a glimpse of herself in harsh lighting. Silver linings #4 and 5 come to mind: Take off your glasses and stay inside with candle light. I am gorgeous in a blurry, candlelit setting.
I was reading an article that advised older women to show off their lower arms and keep that wattled neck covered. They insisted no one has old-looking lower arms and wrists. Are they kidding me? I do look awesome in ballroom gloves to the elbows (silver lining #6).
My students occasionally stare at my wrinkles, droopy skin, and unfashionable but comfortable attire. I get them back on track so fast it would make your head spin. Silver lining #7.
The Glo-Minerals makeup collection costs a small fortune but their silver lining (#8) is some kind of light refraction trick that makes light bounce off wrinkles. Or perhaps it simply blinds folks who look at me (silver lining #9).
I look vastly different from the 19-year-old who fell in love with a sweet young man who would become my teaching widower. He says he loves me just the way I am. And he means it. SILVER LINING #10!!
Good list. Lizzi is a positive influence.
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She is. I’ve enjoyed following her.
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Thanks for including me in your list!
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Haha great list! For what its worth, I think you look fresh and glowing in your picture 🙂
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Thanks. I was glowing from the sweat of preparing a Thanksgiving dinner!
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#10 is a wonderful, beautiful Silver Lining, and may not be a Silver Lining, but the Whole All 😀 I love that you can write that. And also you look positively GLOWING in your photo 🙂
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Thanks, Lizzi! You nailed #10. 🙂 As I commented to someone else, I was sweating from preparing a huge Thanksgiving dinner. Whew!
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LOL no wonder you were glowing then 😉
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But I WAS happy. I love to cook.
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Me too 🙂
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Candlelight all around, please! Thanks for the giggle.
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This really made me laugh, with you not at you obv. I think you are wearing very well! Me and the bloke had the whole ‘someone stealing your eye verses your thumb’ chat a while back.
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Thanks, Chrissie. Emphasis on WEARING…. Did you guys really talk about that? I’d never heard that topic before! So you are crime show buffs, as well as my friend?
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Haha! I’m more pleased about the being your friend part ^_^ Me n the bloke do tend to solve stuff in TV dramas rather too quickly for entertainment purposes, which leads to amusing ourselves with some dark but humorous quandaries.
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A relative had been wondering for quite some time, how her eye brows were growing in perfect shape, because they’d never done that before, and she mentioned it to me. That’s when we realised she needed to get her eyes checked! 😀
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That’s hilarious! I can SO identify with her!
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