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“All the news that’s fit to print”…did it for me!<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m an avid fan of the NY Times for a lot of reasons and\u00a0one\u00a0is\u00a0because every once in a while the paper has a good news article or op-ed or editorial that just hits me\u00a0\u00a0with an “aha” moment. \u00a0Recently, it\u00a0 published an op-ed column,“Retire to Manhattan, Live Long<\/em>“. \u00a0Aha, aha, aha! For me, that was more than a base hit that was an over the wall, with the bases loaded,\u00a0home run! It’s\u00a0 going to be my new bumper sticker, “Retire in Manhattan, Live Long”,\u00a0<\/em>if I had a car that is, which I don\u2019t, so instead I\u2019ll print it out and hang it on the wall \u00a0in my apartment.<\/p>\n Reading the column made me stand up… literally! \u00a0And say, “Thank you, Willard!” \u00a0One of my friends, who doesn’t live here, \u00a0recently said to me, \u00a0he didn’t think the City had a sense of community. “It sure does,” I said. I \u00a0told him about my neighborhood, but Willard Spiegelman, who wrote the 0p-ed,\u00a0said it the best.<\/p>\n “Conventional<\/i>\u00a0wisdom holds that New Yorkers, like Parisians, are snooty, too busy to be approachable. Walking with speed and determination, they cannot be stopped. I have never found the stereotypes accurate. Manhattan is a series of small villages. It replicates itself every five blocks or so. The shoemaker, neighborhood market, barber shop, dry cleaners, liquor store all become part of one\u2019s daily drill. You make friends in the shops.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Now, as you know, if you read my blog even \u00a0once in a while, I’m crazy about this city and everything it offers. \u00a0For many years, I’ve wanted to live here and always knew it would be a great place to retire. \u00a0This article just adds to why. (even though as Spiegelman says..”If one can afford it (a big if).” \u00a0True, but there are so many freebies almost everyday and experiences \u00a0that only cost the wear and tear on one’s feet (and knees), that simply\u00a0enriches one’s life, I believe, at least for me.<\/p>\n As autumn arrives and baseball fans\u00a0\u00a0battle,\u00a0you might want to read Spiegelman’s column in-between cheering for your favorite team. \u00a0 As I said, at the beginning, sometimes…something… just hits home!<\/p>\n \u201cChance encounters brighten the day. They\u2019re like little love affairs without consequences. They keep you alert. This is what any senior citizen needs. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, when a man is tired of Manhattan, he is tired of life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Love this City and Spiegelman for writing the column…bases loaded, out of the park, home run!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n KAY’S NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Important to know and good to know:<\/strong><\/p>\n This \u00a0good news op-ed was written by Willard\u00a0Spiegelman who has a new book, \u201cSenior Moments: Looking back,\u00a0Looking\u00a0ahead<\/em>\u201d, the column, and the above quotes are excerpts from that book. He currently lives in Dallas, but according to his column moving to NYC full-time next year.<\/p>\n (Spiegelman’s column site\u00a0below – apologies – unable to make it smaller font – no matter what I did without losing the link)<\/p>\n Or who, or what, besides a \u00a0baseball player, can score a\u00a0\u00a0home run? “All the news that’s fit to print”…did it for me! I’m an avid fan of the NY Times for a lot of reasons and\u00a0one\u00a0is\u00a0because every once in a while the paper has a good news article or op-ed or editorial that just … Continue reading “Sometimes…it just hits home!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-because"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7svLB-gy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor a Long Life, Retire to Manhattan – The New York Times<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0Condensed reviews and comments on Professor Spiegelman and “Senior Moments”.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Dr. Willard Spiegelman is \u00a0a Distinguished Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. \u00a0He is a regular contributor to the \u201cLeisure & Arts\u201d page of The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and since 1984 he has been the editor-in chief of The Southwest Review<\/em>, the country\u2019s fourth-oldest, continuously published literary quarterly. (SMU)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0On the book:<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Drawing on more than six decades’ worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old.”\u00a0S<\/i>enior Moments”<\/i> is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead.” (Amazon)<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSamuel Johnson:<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\nSpiegelman’s paraphrase from Samuel Johnson: \u00a0The original quote from Samuel Johnson in 1777 \u00a0“…. when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life…” The ever witty Samuel Johnson<\/em> was an essayist, biographer and cultural critic who was a prominent figure in 18th century England (Biography.com)<\/div>\n
E.B. White:<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\nSpiegelman also quotes from E.B White’s famous essay on New York City, Here is New York,<\/em> written in 1948, which I had totally \u00a0forgotten about. \u00a0A great read about the City.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhite <\/span>joined The New Yorker magazine in 1927 \u00a0as writer and contributing editor\u2014a position he would hold for the rest of his career. He wrote three books for children, including Stuart Little (1945) and Charlotte’s Web (1952). (Biography.com)<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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