Yep! Still true.
Mother’s Day in Australia is on 9 May 2021.
Photo source: Unknown
The Leftover Laundry Fashionistas
by Kerry Cue
He’s 83. She’s 84. And they have become an INSTAGRAM sensation modeling laundry left behind in their Taiwan laundromat according to an article by Chris Horton in the New York Times.
Mr. Chang and Ms. Hsu demonstrate that funky fashion and cool style needn’t be expensive or restricted to the youthful cohort. And they make you look at your LOCKDOWN laundry basket with fresh eyes!
POSITIVELY PANDEMIC: Fall Down 7 times. Get Up 8. Do the Hokey Pokey …
by The Sibyls
The PANDEMIC has battered, bruised, and derailed all of us. The pain and challenges are not evenly spread yet the core resilience of survivors has some common elements.
This blog too was interrupted by the Pandemic. But it is time to return to the vitality of The Sibylesque ethos.
Midlife can involve many stresses including career demands, difficult teenage children, divorce, lack of time, lack of fitness, parents’ failing health and money worries with no simple solutions in sight. But one of the BIGGEST issues of midlife is accepting that you are not always in control. Unexpected things can happen to you despite the best plans. Like, say, A PANDEMIC!
An article by Tara Parker-Pope in The New York Times (How to Build Resilience in Midlife) gives some pointers that could equally apply at any age and any time.
Life, or so it seems, was simple once. Now it is so complex.
Here are some of the ways to build resilience:
- Practise Optimism
- Rewrite Your Story
- Don’t Personalise It
- Remember Your Comebacks
- Support Others
- Take Stress Breaks
- Go Out of Your Comfort Zone
We, the Sibyls, would add:
- Seek joy
Joy will not just arrive on your doorstep. You have to seek it. Find out what makes you happy and what makes you laugh. Then do this every day or, at least, when you can.
The Sunday Story Club: Real-life stories that reveal the untidiness beneath the shiny surface of modern life
The Sunday Story Club begins:
“Ironically, considering how strongly we advocate face-to-face contact, the two of us met online. It was 2014 and Doris had just published a memoir, The Twelfth Raven, recounting her husband Martin’s devastating stroke and extraordinary recovery. That same year I had established a website, Sibylesque, dedicated to breaking down the female stereotypes of age, size, marital status and so on.”
This is the Blog.
And this is the book.
There is the extract in The Weekend Australian Magazine (See pic below)
BOLINDA AUDIO BOOK LISTEN HERE.
When we started this blog, we never realised it would lead to a book. Fabulous!
Reclaim Conversation & Connection by Sharing Your Stories
We wrote The Sunday Story Club to share some real-life stories and also encourage others to run their own story salons so that they too could experience their magic.
It has begun.
Thanks, Ashlee & Cristina for the feedback on running your first salon. It sounded fabulous.
You are not a screen. Why we need Face-to-Face Conversation
This is the blog that turned into a Salon that turned into a book called The Sunday Story Club.
We wrote the book to not only share some of the stories but to also show you how to run your own Salon.
LISTEN HERE: And interview with Cassie McCullogh, ABC, Sydney.
The Sunday Story Club: Real-life stories that reveal the untidiness beneath the shiny surface of modern life
The Sunday Story Club begins:
“Ironically, considering how strongly we advocate face-to-face contact, the two of us met online. It was 2014 and Doris had just published a memoir, The Twelfth Raven, recounting her husband Martin’s devastating stroke and extraordinary recovery. That same year I had established a website, Sibylesque, dedicated to breaking down the female stereotypes of age, size, marital status and so on.”
This is the Blog.
And this is the book.
There is the extract in The Weekend Australian Magazine (See pic below)
BOLINDA AUDIO BOOK LISTEN HERE.
When we started this blog, we never realised it would lead to a book. Fabulous!
Puffing Your Way to a Better Brain
by The Sibyls
‘If it’s good for the heart, it’s good for the brain.’ Health advisers are constantly telling us that exercise is good for the brain. Now researchers in Germany claim to have discovered the reason why. It has everything to do with a vitamin-like chemical called choline.
In an article titled Get on your bike and ride out dementia risk (Fin Review, July 2017), Jill Margo explained that there have not been many randomised, control trails of brain metabolism before. Prof Johannes Pantel, Goethe University, Frankfurt, said the small study showed that regular aerobic exercise protects and maintains brain function by keeping the choline levels constant.
Choline maintains brain cell membrane health. Dementia is commonly marked by a sharp rise then crash in choline levels.
So get smart and ‘Puff Puff Puff’ your way to better brain health.
(Note: ‘Banging’ (see above) may also be beneficial to brain health.)
Fall Down 7 times. Get Up 8. Do the Hokey Pokey …
by The Sibyls
Midlife can involve many stresses including career demands, difficult teenage children, divorce, lack of time, lack of fitness, parents’ failing health and money worries with no simple solutions in sight. But one of the BIGGEST issues of midlife is accepting that you are not always in control. Unexpected things can happen to you despite the best plans.
An article by Tara Parker-Pope in The New York Times this week (How to Build Resilience in Midlife) gives some pointers that could equally apply at any age.
Life, or so it seems, was simple once. Now it is so complex.
Here are some of the ways to build resilience:
- Practise Optimism
- Rewrite Your Story
- Don’t Personalise It
- Remember Your Comebacks
- Support Others
- Take Stress Breaks
- Go Out of Your Comfort Zone
We, the Sibyls, would add:
- Seek joy
Joy will not just arrive on your doorstep. You have to seek it. Find out what makes you happy and what makes you laugh. Then do this everyday or, at least, when you can.
This 66-year-old Fashionista is just Stunning!
The Sibyls
While riding her bike around the streets of New York and dressed-to-amaze, 66-year-old Tziporah Salamon once had a friend call out when she was stopped at a light, ‘I want to be you when I grow up!’
According to the SMH Salamon has ‘modelled in a 2012 advertising campaign for Lanvin, starred in the 2014 documentary Advanced Style, and has recorded her unique approach to getting ready in a new book, The Art of Dressing: Ageless, Timeless, Original Style’. Her book includes interviews with 10 other women over 50 whom she finds inspiring. Enough said, here is some of Salamon’s zany style.
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