Out of the closet

Left in yesterday's mailbox:

"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values — they're hobbies. You know, one of the genius moves of The Founders was not writing The Bill of Rights on the back window of a dusty van." – Jon Stewart Born 11/28/1962 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Yesterday was the 97th anniversary of the first broadcast of The Grand Ole Opry in 1925 on a new radio station in Nashville – WSM. At first, the “Opry” was called the "WSM Barn Dance".

In Tews' mailbox today:

Novelist, scholar, and poet C.S. Lewis was born on this day in Belfast, Ireland (1898). He and J.R.R. Tolkien met at Oxford and formed their own private-two-person writer's discussion group they named “The Inklings.”

It is also the anniversary of Madeleine L’Engle's birth, in New York (1918). Her book “A Wrinkle in Time” is one of the most intriguing, and best selling novels. A great read, notwithstanding its target audience of children, featuring the famous characters Mrs. Whatsit, Who, and Which.

. . . the way we age now is not natural . . . [It is a] fact: 80 percent of adults over the age of 65 have at least one chronic disease is simply the result of our modern habits and lifestyles . . . now more than ever it’s possible to live into our nineties and even our hundreds disease free, active, and mentally sharp. – Mark Hyman, M.D.