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Meet The Amazings!
Meet The Amazings! is an interactive Facebook page launched in 2016 to promote awareness of the fabulous, thriving and happy older adults all around us, celebrate them, and provide useful tips and resources to those who would like to live life to the fullest – whatever their current age.
Here’s the Huffington Post article that started it all:
Meet The New 60+ers—The Amazings
We are busting preconceptions, forcing by our very numbers, the world to look at us differently. We are redefining these years as years of growth, joy, fun, adventure, even romance!
We are forcing the world to see beyond our wrinkles, thinning hair and bum knees. We run marathons, kill on the golf course, tango on the dance floor, hike the national parks, and out-yoga a surprising number of Millennials.
A highly entertaining and somewhat shocking YouTube that is a true “must-see,” entitled “Millennials Show the World What They Believe Old Looks Like.” Judging from the video, younger people have a narrow view of what “old” really means.
Latest Amazings!
Thank you!
I began “Meet The Amazings” in 2016 to celebrate the wonderful, vibrant lives of countless people in their 70s, 80s and beyond. Now, after featuring
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger, known to most as simply “Mick Jagger,” at 81, is still touring “live and in person,” performing with the Rolling Stones,
Mina Anna Mazzini
Mina Anna Mazzini, better known simply as “Mina,” at 84, just launched her latest album. Widely known as one of the best-selling Italian musical artists
Toh Hong Keng
Toh Hong Keng, at 70, successfully graduated from medical school after 5 years of dedicated study at Southwestern University PHINMA in Cebu, Philippines. Mistaken at
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton, at 78, released her first solo recording this past Christmas, honoring the season, and aptly called “First Christmas.” Singing has long been a
Linda Vanderloop
Linda Vanderloop, at 74, became the oldest woman on record to have hiked the Appalachian Trail – all 2,200 miles of it, with its 900,000-vertical-foot
Larry Cole
Larry Cole, at 91, preps for his next 5K race by running at his retirement community, cheered on and supported heartily by his fellow residents.
Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley, at 70, never expected to still be modeling, much less to make the cover of Sports Illustrated. Yet, she did! When Christie first
Dr. Wilburn Durousseau
Dr. Wilburn Durousseau, at 87, was honored by his community of Lynwood, California, for his 55+ years of service at St. Francis Medical Center. During
Cathy Gallagher
Meet an “AMAZING!” whose grade-school students are her greatest joy! Cathy Gallagher, at 83, is doing what she loves best – teaching! This matters, because,
Judith Som
Judith Som, at 82, became the oldest woman to finish the 2024 New York City Marathon. Judith, a devoted New Yorker, has run the marathon
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 77, is back in “Ho-Ho-Ho” mode again, filming in New York a Christmas movie, which will no doubt hit the screen in
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