Wednesday August 6, 2025

On an overcast cool day in the heat-drenched summer of 2025 - I visited my friend Shirley still living in my old neighborhood Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. We stood along the shorefront recounting stories of time spend raising our daughters back in the day.

It felt good to reminisce about our adventures in Brooklyn creating a life-long friendship for two educators in their 80's still writing, teaching, and feeling purpose. That's what life is all about.

The first 25 years of SuperAger research show cognitive decline is not an inevitable part of aging   Medical Express - August 7, 2025

80-year-old SuperAger brain operates like that of a 50-year-old. Here's why   CNN - August 7, 2025

As you become a 'super ager' or what I call a 'super senior', whatever cognitive issues you had seem to exacerbate usually having to do with memory. Those who read my blogs understand it all goes to the way one's brain is programmed in the simulation of reality - combined with their emotional programming.

Remember that not everyone was programmed with a good memory to begin with.

On the flip side - many people who fall under the heading Gen Z have photographic memories or total recall - as if a step-up in their genetics in the age of technology.

I realize that I'm not programmed like most people - having reached 82 with no major health issues and no noticeable cognitive decline - except in remembering names as I have met thousands of people in my lifetime.

I have no trouble recalling faces and details and at 82 feel more focused than ever especially with the simulation coming to closure. My retention of numbers often surprises me, but then again, you know I'm a numbers person and reality is based on an algorithm.

I've always stayed connected with Z - or what some people call 'the other side'. That connection remains instantaneous guiding me to where I am today in the bigger picture of reality and where it's all going.