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Swimming Against the Current
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Learn about a group of active seniors who created a synchronized swim team
A documentary on the Harlem Honeys and Bears Swim Team, a group of active seniors who created a synchronized swim team that keeps their bodies and minds active, engaged, and young! The film is directed and produced by Aminah Salaam.
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Swimming Against the Current
Special | 56m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
A documentary on the Harlem Honeys and Bears Swim Team, a group of active seniors who created a synchronized swim team that keeps their bodies and minds active, engaged, and young! The film is directed and produced by Aminah Salaam.
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Oh, don't be a sad thing, goddamnit.
Don't, baby.
Yeah.
Like, wait, is that last that last, that day that I think the people that never blew up.
Oh, ain't no fit.
Take off your skin and dance around.
You don't.
Oh, hey, now that you gave it, dad.
That even though everything is better.
But I don't call you back on it.
Then they call it hot underneath.
Oh.
My name is t scrap, and I'm 94 years young.
I recommend, swimming for everyone.
And I say including a child, a six man, maybe my audience that in rowing to swim because very important.
Despite the best exercise, I think in the world.
I'm told that I was born in New York hospital, 83 years ago.
And I'm a product of the city.
Harlem was in its heyday, neighborhoods was full with big families and everybody.
Much of my family think that I loved everybody in the world, and I, And that's.
And I love some people know, but, like, you've always going and they get upset when they hear that work, honey.
And this because I have too much time with the honey and this and not enough time with them.
I sing and I swim.
Those are my two favorite things to do.
And as long as God gives me breath and ability to move, I will continue doing.
My name is Joan and I'm 82 years young.
Well, I am a home girl native, followed by Born and Raised and Harlem in the Bronx.
I am a United States diplomat.
I'm a former ambassador with President Obama and Secretary Clinton.
So I'm a businesswoman.
I'm a resident.
I'm a mom.
I'm a proud member of the Harlem Honeys.
And bass.
Player.
I'm, I'm a retired real world.
I enjoy taking pictures.
I also do, framework, and, I keep, records of the events.
I'm the oldest of five children.
I'm a retired social worker.
I'm a toastmaster.
I'm in a genealogy club.
I'm taking keyboard.
And I'm just enjoying life.
I'm a retired dental hygienist.
I'm the grandmother of 13 and great great grandmother for, I swim with the heart of anything.
I am your captain.
On this ship, the.
And I really do anything.
I'm retired.
So I guess about 14 years ago in in that I forgot the year.
I come from on 24th street.
But first, a address and, went to Great War after high school, went to the Marines, couldn't make college and had a wonderful experience there for that.
An episode Vietnam and and got married to my, I guess childhood sweethearts.
We've been married two years.
My name is Rasheeda Ali, and I'm 80 years young, also known maybe around the world as Mama La.
I joined the company using bears in the early 80s.
I'm probably one of the older, longest honey in bear.
Sometimes I'm a honey and sometimes I'm the media.
What makes this program so unique is the people at the age of 65 and 70 and 75, I'm learning for the first time.
I'm swimming, and that's fine.
But, senior people think being able to swim and what are you is just a matter of getting in during the season.
And it's the sport that, that you never forget.
You know, somebody throw you in the pool, you know how to take care of yourself.
Harlem honeys and bears are very much alive and very much alive and kicking.
It's it's actually an honor for me to act.
And I'm privileged to be able to be part of the team.
And, you know, just bring your lady on our back.
Watch as they walk away, washed away.
Stick with it.
I'll come back.
I'll come back.
Yeah.
Okay.
You see her holding up and coming up of the down drop off to the.
Five.
Yeah, but what I'm saying is ladies are going to come up.
You don't want to walk.
I'll talk to you out of the water like three, two, one.
But if you don't want to.
Guy.
Johnny, look at what good, good party.
It's.
When I came, I had an injury to my legs.
And now the doctor said I needed water therapy.
So I look for a place that I could get water therapy for free.
And summer Harlem honeys and beers had their show.
And I and a friend came and we watched them do a synchronized ballet in the pool at Hansbrough.
I said to my friend, I'm joining that team.
I want to do that.
It's so beautiful.
And I did.
Orthopedic doctor told me that I needed to, have total knee replacement on both knees.
A friend of mine took me to a holistic doctor, and I went to see him and he recommended that I begin to come to the pool.
He told me that Water Roberts would be the best therapy that I can get, so I delayed having the, surgery.
I said a little prayer to God, you know, because that got a little scared and a little worried.
So I just went out on an early retirement so that I can just come to the pool on a regular basis.
And I begin doing that at the time, I was walking with a cane, I was holding on to the wall.
I can sometimes my knees will lock on the industry.
And I became like, you know, very afraid at times, thinking that I would not be able to just move from that spot on my all.
And, by me continuing to come to the water, my knees got stronger, much better.
I was able to put down the, the cane and to this day I have not have surgery on the knees.
I always love to swim because even when I was a child, my father used to take.
Us to a segregated pool.
They would close the pool on certain days, and only the blacks could swim on the day before.
Then they would drain all the.
Water out of the pool for.
The whites to swim.
The next day.
So there was a swimming pool called Jefferson Park that at one time, as black people, we couldn't go past.
I had six three because you would get beat up.
Later on I moved into the Jefferson Houses.
What a coincidence.
I was in the pool every day.
So since that time I've always loved to swim.
And I found the Hansbrough Recreation Center, which was in my neighborhood, and I've been swimming here ever since.
Before I. I. How I'm.
Walking.
Back and.
You.
Oh, wow.
Let's bring you.
Out of the something that was.
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Now there is no.
I don't know how they called.
For.
I think for good.
I graduated 3:00.
000.
That you would.
Not do it at.
305.
You got to remember this, not this map.
Remember, I joined the team about five years ago.
I was in the water, just swimming around.
I kept watching it, and I always wanted to do, like, the ladies on TV with so many through the Olympics.
I always wanted to do that.
So that was the reason why I joined, like, a film.
I like that, and then I just ended up staying.
Yeah, that was my amazing.
I've been come to this pool before.
They made Lenox Terrace here when it was 134th Street, with the whole block complexes there.
Yes.
1952 53.
And so I've always, you know, swimming is my best sport.
I like basketball, cycling, running.
I can excel in swimming.
So I've always been coming to the pool and I joined because I felt that I needed to be around some other people, and they needed me because they did have good experience in swimming.
I have a swimming background, some friends of mine, we were lifeguards back in 1957, 58 and, beach.
So while we were there, this swimming, this is not on our own.
A young New York Times reporter comes walked by and she said, oh, I like to do a story on you guys because x, y, z, you know, so that's a picture of us.
We were we were young, young lions.
And now we all over for.
Old ones with a lot of.
Yeah, yeah.
So, this is the heart of the.
Show from anywhere until the kids.
Because when was your question?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I was showing off.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that was my first job.
I still got my first paycheck.
I gave my mother $20.
I felt so good, you know?
Now, contribute to the household.
That was a lot.
Of the family.
Historically, when I was growing up, you know, African-American girls didn't want to get the hair wet, you know, and it was a skin challenge.
And it still is a hair and skin challenge.
But we have so many supplements now, you know, you can buy here.
You can buy a supplement to here.
You can take care of your skin.
There's so many aids.
Well, I know what works for me.
And, it the, women don't mind.
I can tell them what I do, what I normally do, I mix synthetic hair with my hair.
So when I get into the pool and I come up now with the shampoo, and when it's dry and look that, I just came from the the the, due to poor.
So many of our people didn't go in the Navy and things like that for those particular reasons, because they were afraid of water.
And, I would hope people would fall in love with it.
But secondly, to be able to have a form of exercise that's not traumatic to your joints, it actually improves your health.
And so it's very important for us historically to get over the things that kept us out.
And I live in the Harlem community, and just from my interaction with many people, so many of them don't know how to swim.
They never learned how to swim.
That's important, especially to learn when you never done something and you have a fear of it.
It's a challenge.
And I think we all welcome challenges, whether we, we, realize it or not.
One of the importance that they should not have to swim because in the event of something happen and they may be able to save their lives if they know how to swim.
So that's very important for adults as well as children and especially our children, because, statistically, they saying that our children are dying at a higher rate than other children.
Should.
20s.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
My topic I had.
All right.
The world is three quarters water.
And every time you go to the beach or not a beach, but, a hotel, it says swim at your own risk.
No lifeguard on duty, you know.
So, three quarters rule of water.
You should know how to swim.
I think it's it's sad that if you're going to go on a cruise and you're going to be in them, you're going to be around water, but you can't swim, you know, where is the fun and not being active?
That one is.
It's nice to know you can float in something other than in your bathtub, because this, the how many of the bands that's been around for over 30 some years and, you know, the people before us left, left us this legacy.
And I would like to see it continue on into the future for all of our children that is coming after us.
So that's lesson one is that we continue to do what we do so that they can carry on when the time comes for them.
Swimming is not just swimming, it's, therapy.
It's, meeting friends.
It's taking care of your body.
And it's also, gives you a chance to, be mindful again of water.
And you can just think and breathe and be with you.
So there's so much more than just getting into the water.
The water does its water purposes, but it also does other things.
It brings you closer to other people.
It gets you into, a friendly atmosphere.
It's emotive.
It's a motivator.
That's what it is, actually.
It's a motivator for everything in your life.
You come to that water and you bring.
And I pray that someday you and and you have.
Oh, you're never gonna be.
Oh my God.
You know.
Heard, that we.
There's no reason in a world where black folk dominate swimming like we do track and field, for example.
And it's coming to pass that, you know, there's a great myth that blacks can't swim because of heavy bowls, etc., etc.. You know, that's out the window, just like a water.
You see blacks gambling barrels off the long distance of water.
You're also.
The most challenging thing of being a member is because you started from scratch, and I was the first president.
And so it took a lot, to, to, for us to continue to still be going on.
It took a lot of work.
So but I got started with it, and, I'm not a quitter.
Stick with it.
That killed me.
So it almost did.
But everything put out.
Okay, so.
Some of the challenging parts I guess you would call it some at a point.
You know, some of the ladies don't, agree with one another.
So, I guess I'm like the father of them, you know, anytime that they have problems, they come to me, and I'm the one that tries to solve them, you know?
So I guess that is challenging at times.
Five.
And it was five before six.
Six before it was five.
That how many have we waited?
They didn't wait.
No, wait what she said I for me that's not it's not stubbornness gliding.
It's.
No, that's a lie.
Yeah.
So you're getting good glide going.
That's gracious.
What else?
That's another.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I know what it is to.
You.
Because I want to do what we do.
I want to go.
I just.
What, three.
Two, one?
No.
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Oh, look.
1.100 and you call the.
Good.
Good.
Like any family, there are days when it's a little challenging.
But for the most part, you'll have fun.
I think of this.
We're swimmers.
But then think of it as different fish, different types of fish.
Okay, you have your barracudas, you have your whales, you have your guppies.
And because you have a lot of egos and when you have and we talk and we have very strong personalities, for the most part they're all divas.
I think that's which is what has run most of them been away.
Okay.
So it's difficult to get men who can deal with that much female strength.
I've been the coach for Adam Honey and bands for 20 plus years.
I've been a swimmer since I was eight years old.
The most rewarding part is experience, I think, is motivation from the seniors, because I get a lot of energy from them.
There's a lot of day that I may feel like I don't want to come in, but I know they're going to be there, you know, and end of that cold water.
So that's what preps me right on up to get on over to myself.
You know.
Each each each person have have their moments and we have quite, quite a time of, like, our president, Mary Williams, she had a, a get together where people just let their hair down.
People brought their little, food, you know, by think they could cook better than the other person.
And once you learn to relax with other people, that doing something like that other than swimming, you find out a lot about them that you didn't know before.
And many times we as seniors go through things that we don't know how to handle.
And I find getting in the water and just being able to kind of come down a little bit helps us to.
Solve some of those problems.
When we get out of the water.
It's the what is a very healing spot.
If I go in the pool and do a couple of laps.
Surprising.
I don't need a doctor.
The water is that there are people that came first on canes, food or are now walking without canes.
The most rewarding part has been the learning new skills.
Interacting with my teammates and, working with the children.
I just love that.
And learning to swim there.
Yeah, I enjoyed the camaraderie and little structure.
No charm.
Oh.
Japanese got.
What do you got?
There.
We talked in my years prior to the swimming that I would ever consider swimming.
Well, that's.
I considered swimming, but participating in a senior Olympic that never crossed my mind.
It's free.
It's a good program.
And, it just gives you a lot of different experiences.
A lot of different ways to help, to express yourself.
I think it's wonderful.
We have a Learn to Swim program, which is free for our children of the community and elsewhere, and it is one of the most rewarding things I've ever done, because I've never worked with children before other than my own, my grandchildren, etc.. It's it's very, very rewarding to see these little children come in at the age six.
And.
Say, what can you do?
Oh, I can swim.
And then you see them fumbling in the water, moving their hands, walking.
I said, that's great, but I'm going to teach you how to swim so your feet are in the water and not walking on the bottom.
Well, I can't tell me anything.
You forgot again, I forget, and that's why you remember.
You had one that she taught me.
Do you know my name?
If we taught them.
How to swim, especially the young ones, that would encourage them to get their parents into the water.
So it's important to start with the kids.
And you can work your way to the seniors and parents.
It's important for them to swim so they don't die, so they don't drown.
All the way.
Down like that.
Oh yeah.
I teach the children to float.
And to tread water and to relax in the water.
Because when the children first come to the water, they kind of panic because it's a lot of water, you know, they start at three feet, but we go all the way down to nine feet.
And so it's a lot of water for them to kind of be comfortable in.
The.
I love working with the children and the different phases.
The breeding phases show phase.
I enjoy the breeding phase of teaching the kids that for once, they got the understanding and how to breathe.
They'll be, more comfortable in the water.
My name is Sarah Wesson Jones on their team, and I've been with the Honey Bees program for three years now, and it's been a great opportunity because on my first day, I learned how to swim.
And ever since I was hired by swimming, I love the competitive spirit that they have here and the coaches inspire and motivate us to be the best at what we do swimming and in life, period.
So I'm glad to have this program out in the community for all of us.
Coach Luther makes us work a lot and that's really fun.
I want to be a professional and I practice a lot to make that happen.
Well, I love a costume and I was afraid of the water, so I just joined it.
Just try to finally get a great and like a hold on swimming.
And so once I did that, I was no stopping me.
You know, the 300 would again take a big breath.
You ready to go?
No no no no no, I want you.
To push it off.
What's happening now is we're trying to build up stamina.
Because when she came, she was six years old.
You could see that she couldn't swim.
And with a push off now she swimming in deep water.
She knows how it goes.
I'm sorry.
I want to get you 303030.
Okay.
Get 10s.
I don't know, five.
So I might be ready.
Go.
Oh.
All right, all right, all right.
Good good good.
You know, in our program, we teach kids how to swim.
And once they learn how to swim, if they feel that they still want to interact in our program, then we send them to another level, you know, which is a swim competition.
That's it.
And I have three medals from from where I was racing specific.
Yeah.
Grandmother and team and mom and dad.
We had them.
It was the Ethiopian youth, the oatmeal.
And I said, well this is going to be your homework.
So he said, but not so much.
We don't got no pool.
But I said, it's okay.
You can practice on your feet.
And just to see them comfortable floating and to see them playing and just to know that, you know that that it's a challenge that becomes an opportunity, you know, and that they can do this.
They can do anything.
I coached a boy at the age of 7 or 8 years old.
He's now the number ten boy in the nation.
They have age categories ten a nine and ten, 11 and 12.
So the boys, that's between 11 and 12.
And the nation, he's in the top ten, you know, give me, six breaststroke.
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Six five.
Four three.
Ready, go.
Slow.
Go.
That personally, makes me feel good that I have, I know I can coach if.
I could be like them.
On the senior.
I mean, I'd be amazing.
And like me, they're like my biggest fans, and I can go for that.
Rush?
I mean, see.
America.
I love sweet America.
Oh, beautiful.
Im baby girl.
Oh.
The myth that when you retire, you going to relax?
Most people from statistics, if they retire, they usually pass away in the first five years because they're not.
They're not moving their bodies.
They're, Because retirement doesn't mean that you retire from life.
So this idea of, Delta going to sit around and and that's boring.
And the body needs to be constantly in motion as well as the mind.
Before I became a senior, I just thought that getting old was not going to be cheap.
I watch people on go later and you walk over and stop in on every corner and everything that you sit on, and I thought that was but what seemed like was an outfit that is so wrong.
It's important for people to see that the new senior is getting out there.
We're walking, we're throwing radios, canes, we're dating, we're having fun partying, we're dancing, we're doing all the things we did in our youth, but now we can do it without hesitation because we're seniors and because.
My dad was 97 years old when he died.
And the only reason why he died at 97 is because he couldn't run up and down and examine what I could do every day playing the numbers, all four tracks.
You know, I said, daddy, can't you stay in the house?
You know who will bring your food?
Who's out there?
My mother's mouth.
The important thing is to keep active and, I said, you know, is nothing wrong with being active.
And when it comes to age, age is just number.
There's always too many 64.
So you're never too old to learn something new.
When there's so many people as they grow older.
Don't do anything.
And it's extremely important, I think, to to socialize.
Many people socialize by coming to the senior center and participating in the activities there, and many participate in some of this.
You really can make something very, very beautiful sitting there watching soaps is not going to make you feel better.
At this stuff, but a spiritual, another thing, when you're up traveling among the public.
And your spirit touches another spirit, just maybe to a smile.
All of those kinds of things raise my spirit and raise things to the same.
And when you think about synchronized swimming teams, how did you do?
You know, I've seen seeing the amazing energy of those who of my elders and seniors who are strong, who swim so well.
You know, when you're younger, you think like you know it all because I've been swimming since I was two.
And then I came and I saw, Louise doing this backstroke.
And I saw.
Monica and Janie doing these cartwheels on the water meter, and I was like, oh, my gosh, you know, I've got a lot to learn.
And I'm living.
My best life because now I have the time to do the things that I really love to do, and I, I don't give any time to things that I don't want to do.
So I belong to several boards.
But, the, the fantasy is and a lot of little health and wellness things that I have joined.
In an effort to.
Show people that it's not over till this level of over.
If you feel like you want to, hold to a new calendar, go ahead and do it.
If you feel like you want to get up in, I don't know, go to a strip club, go to the strip club.
Don't let it be eliminated because people say you're old.
Like people say, oh, I didn't even know you was a senior because of the way you drink.
So what, am I supposed to wear a dress down to my knees?
I don't think so.
Well, I just think sometimes as we grow up, I to say.
Oh, well, up.
We decide that it's certain that we do, that we should probably.
We should do like we try to make sure and it's senior citizens club or operation and go and have lunch with them and go to the programs.
We don't actually physically engage, generally engage in, an ongoing physical program for ourselves.
And I think that's important to say.
Keep your mind operating correctly.
And you back up and said that I just think we owe it to everybody to give whatever we can give.
That's what I think.
And when you stay healthy, you can give a lot more than we need to.
It's encouraging.
It's encouraging for youth to realize that you can grow old gracefully.
It's encouraging for seniors to realize that at any age, you can learn and you grow and you can teach and you.
And it's all so encouraging because it's you know, you know, we have our practice and we have our playtime.
And it's nice to, to to realize that, you know, you don't have to be set and stereotype to a certain age.
Now.
And aging is no different from being young.
It's just that you don't want to do things that's going to wear you out.
So by the time you get to a certain age, you can't do anything.
So people say, oh, take this and do that.
No sleep good, stay away from hard drugs.
Okay.
Notice that the hard drugs stay away from drugs and all that sex.
And in staying out, it's not worth it.
Get your sleep.
Do what you have to do.
You know, eat good exercise all the time.
Because as you get older, exercise becomes important so that when you fall down, you don't break.
We fall a lot and things are not falling a lot.
But thank God, because I'm so solid, I don't get cracked up.
Like most seniors used to do.
And I go line dancing.
I was going every Friday at, Central Harlem, but, I don't go that much in the mall, but I still like to go dancing.
I. Just pass Sally on Harlem is best known to have had her dance.
We went and we all had a good time this year and having fun.
She is finding the right girl.
You know, you do like I want to come through for you guys.
I can really.
Turn up for your like.
I can show you that.
Sorry.
Come on boy, I can show you what it feels like winding down, buddy.
I to show you.
That like, you know, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy.
When you joy do do do do do do do do do do do I do that?
Why why why why why why.
The world needs light.
Baby let me shine on you.
Time and time is somebody I, I'm in, I'm me I call you like them to.
Repeat yourself and rewrite them, rewrite it, record it.
Be a star forever.
Is your money where?
No fee.
All right.
You know that is better.
If money winning.
Is.
The winning.
Artist.
The pain that you got.
The body.
Now I can reach it.
Don't go.
Don't want.
To try to.
Hug you.
Don't you don't look.
Why, why, why you?
Don't you do not do that.
Why why why why why why it comes down.
Step one by one on hot Pepper.
Hey, I songbird, I'm a try.
We do that like the crowd was too far to do.
Got the music be making my day way it was brought up.
But, Walla Walla Walla.
Walla Walla Walla Walla, Walla Walla, down.
Island.
If it's for you today, do it today.
Because in this life, nothing is promising.
I learned that recently when I lost my daughter, I always thought there was going to be more time.
So don't take for granted that tomorrow is yours because it's not.
People think there's only old humps in the ground.
There's a lot of young lumps in that ground too.
So take care of yourself, do the right things, and take each day like it's your last one.
I just know wherever I'm going, I'm going to make it fun.
Wherever.
If I go in the projects in hell, or if I end up, you know, in heaven somewhere, I'm going to make fun.
I'm going to make my mark, and you do what you do.
Don't worry about if you're going to die because you're going to die.
And that'll kill you.
Worrying about dying live like people say, oh, she's dying, we're all done.
But right now I'm living.
If you give up, you're going to lose it.
If you keep doing something of a slow even of a little pain, you got to do it.
So blacks in particular, or older people in general need to do something, whatever their passion is, with cycling or rowing, a bowl of horseback riding or just walking around the block one or 2 or 3 times.
Every day is like I was just born.
I get up and say, what trouble am I going to get in today?
Because I look for trouble every day.
That's what makes me so.
I intend to still, enjoy life and, not stay at home watching TV.
I'm too young for that.
When you walk through a store on, hold your hand up.
And be a friend.
And if you do a online work, pay them to the store is not forgotten, nor is this here.
Hey.
Sorry.
Sorry, I got worried.
But you'll never walk alone.
Yes, I. Do.
Because we've come so far since we began this, I've been through the trenches.
You've seen so many ups and downs.
Like we barely even touch the ground.
I love you more each day.
And I pray I can push my ego out the way that you know it'll be okay in.
Whenever times get rough.
You ain't gotta be tough I found a way to go back in time.
Find a way we can press rewind so hard I'll be standing right there in the middle of a circle.
With my arms out wide.
Trying to turn back the hands of time.
Oh, I I'll be standing right there in the middle of a circle.
With my arms out wide.
Try to turn.
The hands of time.
And I'll love you still I always will be strong.
Because in my eyes you can never do no wrong.
So I'm gonna be standing right there in the middle of a circle with my arms.
I was trying to turn back the hands of time.
Oh, I'll be standing right there in the middle of a circle with my arms.
I was.
Trying to turn.
Back the hands of time.
I'll be right there waiting.
I'll be.
Right.
Yeah, I'm.
Waiting.
I'll be right.
Give way there for your love.
For your love I'll be.
Mine I'll be right.
You waiting for I'll be right.
Yeah I'm waiting.
I'll be.
Right here.
Waiting for you now.
Me for your love.
Hope.
Yeah.
You, you.
You for.
Love.
You.
You you.
You you.
So.
I I. I love.
You.
I I I. And so what you look forward to getting involved to something that you really want to try.
Try it all and fall in love with something and do it.
To being healthy, strong and fit.
Well, I feel by me swimming.
It makes my body feel icky.
Somebody in shame will make somebody feel good.
So I look forward to this.
Continue to swim 2 or 3 times a week and to eat properly in Texas.
Keep in mind and shake.
Continue to grow, to learn, to experience, to love.
There's so much for us to learn.
And the creator.
Wants us to know these things.
If we look at the flowers, the bugs.
Eat the human body.
We see there's so many different.
Parts of it, so it's a lot less to learn for the rest of my life.
I'm looking forward to being a wonderful, honorable citizen and public servant that serves my community, that represents my community well and whatever I say and do.
There's a biblical scripture that says, you know, your children will rise up and call you blessed, and I hope that that's what will happen.
I'm looking forward to learning something new every day.
What am I looking forward to for the rest of my life?
I want to be happy all the time.
And then I would eventually like to finish cleaning my apartment.
I, I so I've been making, slip concentrates for the last eight years.
I want to finish that.
And I have to clean up my papers so that should I expire, my children or relatives will not talk about me for the rest of their natural lives.
I'm looking forward to increasing.
My.
Abilities.
To handle the everyday challenges of life.
I'm looking forward to being around people that are looking for the.
Same and I'm looking forward to being able to know the difference.
Okay, what I would like to do is to continue having fun swimming, bowling, reading.
Life is a wonderful thing and we should share our joy with others.
We should always let our light shine.
Who, I'm looking forward to just enjoying it.
I'm looking forward to learning new things.
I'm looking forward to seeing my grandchildren grow, get called.
To get married and bring.
Great, great grandchildren.
For all of that.
To be as positive as I can.
I also liked the inter-generational obligation between us and the children whenever we get to help the children.
Positively, I like that.
And to looking forward.
And I think that people need to go out, leave their space and travel around and and see the world.
Bless to be able to.
Accomplish that goal and singing and piano and going to the nursing home and then to the hospitals and to entertain.
I love to show love, to give love and to be loved.
Well, I mainly.
Look forward to living forever.
Because that's.
The gift.
That God has given us in his written word.
The Bible.
And it says that God made mankind to live forever, never tasted death.
So I look forward to living forever.
Because.
There's so much for us to learn.
And I just love being alive.
And.
So you're not going to look a closed toy before you go look?
Yeah.
I mean, she like that, and she can, like, you know, get some more.
You.
Because I don't get no time for this, okay, Shasta.
Not right now.
Later.
You ready?
Oh, I'm going to be.
It is that we are.
You know.
My mind sounds nice.
Check one.
I just had to do that.
Now you're worried about what?
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