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- 2 - A THOUGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR Look at the bright side: No matter how old you are, you're younger than you'll ever be again. To feel or not to feel our age: Imagine a picture of a young girl, complete with grin, plaits and freckles, and obviously happy and bursting with health. This is a picture of a 40-yer-old woman, or perhaps just a picture of the way a 40-year-old woman feels. She is a woman who does NOT feel her age, or think her age, or act however it is her age is supposed to act. If ages are to be believed, we grow old from the moment we are born. If ages are to be believed, we stop before experience teaches us to start. If you believe your age, you might not climb whatever hills you are supposedly over. If you believe 25 or 30 or 48 or 62, you might believe it is time to stop - when you are really just beginning to go. If you are lucky, you learn to walk from almost the moment you are born. If you are lucky, you have feet and you use them, and if you are smart you have shoes to move you along, shoes that are comfortable, shoes that actually fit. If you are lucky, you walk as long as you can, as well as you can, for as far as you want to go. And then if anyone says you're over the hill, you can tell them YOU WALKED EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. Tony Scammell Editor