Top Ten List for my Beatles Birthday

1. Love Always Trumps Hate.  After all, the phrase is “You never forget your first love”, not “you never forget your first hate.”
2. Think of something that makes you smile.  Repeat at least ten times a day.
3. Tell the people you love that you love them- right now.  Go ahead, I’ll wait.
4. Replace every memory that you beat yourself up over - with one that you pat yourself on the back over. Keep doing this until it sticks.
5. Learn something new every single day: A word. A phrase. A factoid. A country capital.  It doesn’t matter what it is, just learn something.
6. I am pleased that now as a senior curmudgeon, I’m able to use a few of my favorite words without everyone’s eyebrows raising: Groovy, Poppycock, Phony Baloney and Wowie Kazowiee.  
7. A phrase for the times in which we live (to be said after taking a long and deep breath) “And this too shall pass.” Because, if living in (at least parts of) eight decades has taught me anything: “It certainly shall.”
8. Please help a family caregiver. They probably won’t ask for your help, but definitely do need it.  Don’t ask them if you can help. Tell them what you can do. 
9. Take a hint from the youngest and the oldest of us and don’t forget to take your naps.
10. And finally, a list of four-letter words to include in your vocabulary as often as possible: love, care, kiss, hugs and (of course) dogs.

 With a nod to Sir Paul: “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?”

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