Excerpts from:
Tips for Passing 50: Eat smarter, tell the truth, be yourself, swing on a trapeze, and other pearls of advice from Garrison Keillor and friends.
"Put the past behind you. This is even easier to do at my age (63), but you can get a start at 50. Make a pile of your regrets and put a match to them and let them blow away—the lost loves, the estranged friends, the botched education, the unwritten novel, the neglected guitar, the ruinous investments, the dear friend who committed suicide, the opportunities that sailed away without you. Put that knapsack full of rocks on the ground and walk away and find something in the here-and-now that absorbs you and take up with that—a garden, a grandchild, a choir, yoga, knitting, amassing a collection of porcelain pigs, political agitation, learning the drop-thumb style of banjo."
- Garrison Keillor, Author and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion
"You may think 50 is old, but three years from now you will think it is young. That's one very positive aspect of thinking ahead."
- Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion designer
Photo credits: Garrison Keillor by Brian Velenchenko. Diane von Furstenberg by Getty Images.
