…. Frieda Lefeber age 100

Frieda Lefeber, who recently turned 100, is celebrating her first solo art exhibit opening this week at Rosemont College in Pennsylvania. Frieda began taking art classes at age 76 and earned a degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at age 83. “I had no idea I could paint,” she says. “It keeps me young.” Frieda published her autobiography at age 88, exercises five mornings a week, and still drives. She lives with her daughter, cooks dinner for the family and cleans up every night.  My friends in their 50’s and 60’s and 70’s, please stop talking about how you are near the end of life. This woman wrote a book and got college degree in her 80’s and first solo art exhibit at 100! Cultivate an interest, keep yourself busy, stay in motion so your bones and muscles keep working for you, eat right so you fuel your body, not slow it down. Get out with people, volunteer, there is so freaken much still to do, plan for it by staying fit and in motion.