Hmmmmm…04-30-12

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

  –Margaret Fuller

Attention, Late Bloomers!  The path less traveled has been walked by many a noteworthy sojourner.

Julia Child did not learn to cook until she was 40 years old.  Harlan “Colonel” Sanders did not start Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was in his late sixties.  Grandma Moses first picked up a paintbrush when she was 75.  At age 72, Oscar Swahn was not only the oldest Olympian ever, but also the oldest medalist at the 1920 games.  Emily Post published her famous book Etiquette when she was 50 years old.  Alan Rickman, aka Professor Snape from the Harry Potter series, got his first movie role at age 46.  Roget invented the thesaurus at 73.  Al Jarreau released his first album at age 35.  Enough?

Don’t write yourself off.  A butterfly was once housed in a dull cocoon that resembled a dead leaf.  Dried up and wrinkly on the outside doesn’t mean anything to the inside.

Don’t write anyone else off, either.  Baseball player Josh Hamilton did not make his major league debut until the age of 26 due to years of serious drug and alcohol abuse. Johann Wolfgang Von Gothe said, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” He was in his fifties when he published Faust.

Diamond or coal?  Time is on your side.

No pressure,

Gina J