Not a rock climbing buff? That's OK. You could still cheer what Gerry Bloch accomplished a while back when he scaled EL Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He didn't take the comparatively easy route up what's called The Nose that he took on his previous climb several years before. On this more recent outing he ascended the difficult Aquarian Wall. That's 2,500 feet pretty much straight up a granite slab. Oh, and one other thing that made his ascent newsworthy: he was eighty-one at the time.
Don't care for golf either? You can still admire the play, if not the final score, of John Elliot, eighty-one. Earlier this year when he competed at the inaugural Octogenarian Open in Riverside, California, he shot a nine-over-par 36. The score was good enough to edge out his golfing buddy for the day. That was his dad, Paul Elliot, one hundred three, who also played at the Octogenarian Open.
Undimmed life and usefulness are natural and inevitable.
