work or caregiving. It’s about healing—healing one’s relationship with a body that perhaps used to be a source of insecurity or was only valued for its youth. Now that body is a source of pride and pleasure, wrinkles, hip replacements and all. And it’s about joy— pure, simple joy in movement, the kind we all had as children running around, now recaptured in a wiser, elder form. One could say these women have learned the secret to lifelong youthfulness after all: it’s not in trying to look young, but in continuing to live with the curiosity, passion, and joy that movement brings. They are, in every sense, moving forward—and inviting the rest of us to follow their lead, at any age, with pizzazz and a smile. ●
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