GRAND Magazine - May/June 2011 - (Page 44)

Look for the moon in the morning A reason to get out of bed BY LEDA SANFORD “What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” —Leo Buscaglia I ’m a morning person. I’m sharpest in the “wee small hours of the morning...” as the song goes. So aging agrees with me. While my friends complain that now that they’re older they’re waking up at 4 and 5 a.m., I revel in this pattern that allows me to get a 44 GRAND MAY JUNE 2011 jump on the world. Because I work and live on the West Coast, I can start calling people on the East Coast at 5 a.m. and astound them that I’m up and at ’em so early. I can get in that morning walk with no excuses, and on winter mornings it’s enthralling to see the moon just before dawn. Between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m., I do much of my writing while watching the dawn break over Angel Island. (I live in Sausalito...heaven on earth.) It’s peaceful in the morning, and the feeling of a new beginning is evident with the rising sun. It’s a time to make lists of things to do and people to call. Television is our modern-day gift to the morning as well. We can tune in to the world, learn what happened as we slept, do photo: ©iStockphoto.com/eliandric

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of GRAND Magazine - May/June 2011

GRAND - May/June 2011
Grand Treasure Hunt
Table of Contents
Grand View
Grand Central
Rational Grandkids? Yes!
Bragging Rights
Cover Story: A Force For Good
Charlie & Gaytha Hillman: Grand Entrepreneurs
Improving Medicare
Grand Products
Growing Old vs. Growing Up
Too Old For Sex?
Kids as Caregivers
My Way or the Highway
Kinship Care
Find Fun Things To Do
Straight Talk on Disabilities
Look for the Moon in the Morning
Toys ’n Tech
Grand Finale
Op-Ed: Is Sex Forever?

GRAND Magazine - May/June 2011