June 21, 2019
T he C olumbia P ress
Senior Moments
with Emma Edwards
Help! I’ve fallen (off the wagon) and I can’t get up
If a cow doesn’t produce
milk is it a milk dud or an ud-
der failure?
Why don’t we connect the
word failure with us seniors
very often?
Sometimes, I hear seniors
lamenting things for which
they’d like a redo. But we’re
simply beyond the failure
definition, I think.
I think the most common
denominator for all seniors is
survival, according to my keen
observation skills. We like to
think that no matter what the
doctor says we’ll live for many
more years, and then some!
The very next item would be
to see our progeny doing well.
I mean body, soul and spirit!
We have different ways of
going about that task. Per-
haps a “know it all” concept
happens earlier in life. And
that could be a detriment, not
an asset.
I think that a young person
who asks questions turns out
to be the more successful per-
son later in life.
I’m in the middle of re-read-
ing a favorite book of mine,
“The Scarlet Thread” by Fran-
cine Rivers.
It’s about a woman who lived
in mid-1900 and a young pio-
neer woman who traveled the
Oregon Trail in mid-1800.
Both were uprooted from
their homes a century apart,
but are joined (in this amaz-
ing book) through “a tattered
journal -- both equally upset
to be uprooted.”
I won’t tell you any more,
but I suspect our local library
has this book or, with its new
system, could order it for you.
Also, I won’t tell you what
happens when they “fall into
the arms of the One who loves
them unconditionally.”
All our lives we have heard
“You can’t always get what
you want” and “Who says life
is fair?”
Vitamin D has received a lot
of kudos lately for everything
from skin health to dementia
prevention. Dr. Michael Hol-
ick, author of “The Vitamin
D Solution,” says “Vitamin D
raises levels of mood-boost-
ing serotonin and boosts the
production of feel-good en-
dorphins.”
He recommends that you
spend 15 minutes in the sun
without sunscreen!
Talking about Milk Duds in
the first paragraph reminded
me to share with you this ver-
sion of “Help! I’ve fallen and I
can’t get up!”
I try to watch my calories
and chuckle over the latest
version for those watching
their weight, too.
Are you ready? For us, we
say “Help! I’ve fallen (off the
wagon) and I can’t get up!”
I knew you would like that
one.
Another gem is that coffee
grounds repel slugs and snails
and act as a slow-release
fertilizer. That’s from Amy
Stross, author of The Subur-
ban Micro-Farm.
Have a good week ahead!
Hey, see you in the sun, but I
can only stay 15 minutes!
Clatsop: Incorporated 175 years ago
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the banks of the Columbia
River to take advantage of the
abundant resource.
Forgive the editorializing,
but we are lucky to live in a
place the rest of the world
wants to visit! Visitors began
coming here in the mid-1500s
-- evidenced by shipwrecks --
and tourism has yet to slow.
The air is clean, water is
healthy, and it’s hard to find a
bad restaurant.
Notable things to see: As-
toria Column, Astoria River-
walk, Astoria Trolly, Liberty
Theatre, Peter Iredale Ship-
wreck, Fort Clatsop and other
Lewis and Clark Expedition
sites, Fort Stevens Historical
Park, Columbia River Mar-
If you go
What: Clatsop County’s
175 th anniversary recep-
tion hosted by Clatsop
County Commissioners
When: 5 p.m. Wednes-
day, June 26
Where: 857 Commercial
St., Astoria
itime Museum, Ecola State
Park, Jewell Meadows elk ref-
uge, Youngs River Falls, War-
renton’s Waterfront Trails,
Tansy Point (site of the 1851
treaty summit with local In-
dian tribes), the Hanthorn
Cannery Museum on Pier 39,
touristy fun and shopping in
Seaside and Canon Beach.
“It’s no coincidence that
the place with the most spec-
tacular scenery in the Pacific
Northwest is also the place
where the most important
events in the history of the
region have occurred: Clatsop
County,” boasts the Clatsop
County Historical Society’s
website.
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