39ers Aging with ATTitude Platitude October 2022

 39ers in October ~ Yeehaw & Yum-Yum!   

Well, October 39ers, I’m as frustrated as you that the 39AHC blog is so late this month! Ya know how it is when life gets in the way of our plans. Are you ready to PAR-tay?!  

From now through the end of 2022, there is a (good) reason to party all along the way. Especially if you have a 39er UN-birthday in the works. Hopefully, I’m getting this out there in time for you!  

We know Oktoberfest is for beer lovers and has been a tradition from latter September through early October since about 1811. And it’s thought that somewhere in the 1970s October Rock & Roll concerts cropped up and we dubbed it Rocktober ...  but with a couple of twists, October could become ...

BACH-tober for classical music celebrations of Johann Sebastian Bach! Oh! How about SOCKtober, as the time of year we celebrate our silly sockies for winter? Or, we could get even goofier with KNOCKtober! October 31^st is National Knock-Knock Jokes Day!* Oh yeah ... we’re havin’ fun now ... 

֎ Celebrating OCTOBER 39ers ~ And More!   
Guess what, ya-all? It’s Country Music Month! Fifty-two years ago this month (October 1970), President Richard Nixon signed the proclamation and asked the American people to mark October as Country Music Month. So head on over to your favorite honky tonk or put on a couple of
Country/Rock crossovers and do your best boot-scootin’ boogie!  

And doesn’t it just make sense that it’s also National Chili Month? The South, Country Music and Chili ... there’s nothing better ... oh, and beer. Amazingly, there is no official link for the special designation, so we’ll turn you on to a couple of places to find great recipes to enjoy your belly-warming chili while you read on for October’s fun celebrations. Yeehaw and yum-yum! 

October 9^th: Get out your binoculars, it’s the Full Hunter’s Moon! The big, glowing ball will, like last month’s full moon, seem larger and brighter than usual, in the dark night sky. While it originally presaged the need to hunt for winter’s food store, in today’s world we can also use this full moon to hunt for new projects to keep us occupied and thriving in the upcoming winter. Celebrating the autumnal equinox, it’s known in some areas as the Falling Leaves Moon (an Anishinaabe term) and the Migrating Moon (Cree). Enjoy, as you start winding up your primary projects, in anticipation of the coming New Moon ...  

October 25^th: Celebrate October’s New Beginnings with a partial solar eclipse!* Our New Moon Musings are especially important this month, as everyone feels the intense Scorpio vibes. It’s a great time for self-evaluation, in all areas of life, in preparation for the New Year. We don’t need to figure it all out now, but start making notes as the moon takes a bite out of the sun. (*We won’t see it in the U.S., but we’ll still feel it!) 

October 26^th: There are some people who simply howl at the moon for fun ... and then there are those who make a party out of it every night! Presenting Howl at The Moon Night, tonight, tomorrow night, any night you choose. “Howl at the Moon is the total entertainment experience! Our high-energy live music show is centered around dance hits and party anthems that will get you dancing in no time.” Fourteen locations in Midwest to East and South are available for your party pleasure. 

October 31^st: It’s true! There’s something to celebrate today other than Halloween (Samhain in Ireland)! Grab your kids and have fun on National Knock-Knock Jokes Day!* There isn’t an official link, so—Knock, knock. Who’s there? Nobody. Nobody who? No body to claim this fun day!
       Knock, knock! Who’s there? Jewel. Jewel who? Jewel be happy to know it’s almost Halloween! Okay, your turn! To get you in the mood, I found JokesBuzz that doesn’t stop at knock-knock jokes. Have fun ...
       Speaking of howling at the moon, we can’t leave Halloween without a nod to my fave-ever Rock Radio DJ, the venerable and still-missed, Aoooowwwwooooo ... Wolfman Jack! Wolfman’s gonna do it, like he does it all night long ...

֎ Monthly Song of Note ♪  
The perfect October/Halloween song on the 1972 Rock Radio charts is of course, the Eagles’ “Witchy Woman.” Since that one is featured on the BFYP blog, I give you ... the Moody Blues and “Nights in White Satin”! **
       No, it isn’t exactly spooky like “Witchy’s” seductress, but it is haunting. Apparently, the band’s Justin Hayward, wrote the song to mean unrequited love. But its melancholy music is somber and thought-provoking lyrics are deeply odd. Especially on their album edition.** The spoken words at song’s end leave us puzzled and solemn ... ♪ Red is gray and | Yellow white | But we decide | Which is right | And | Which is an Illusion ♪ ... more tuneful tidbits to manifest your memories of 1972, 50 Years Ago this Month! 

֎ For 39ers who Follow the Stars …

For most of us, the last quarter of the year is always extra hectic and demanding. October starts it all off, and away we go! This year, 39ers, embrace all “The Season” has to offer, as we celebrate the quiet justice of Librans and Scorpios’ intense scrutiny.
       Ah, Librans (09/23–10/22) you’re in for a busy month of change! You may find your personal life takes a turn, while your professional dealings open you up to new possibilities. Don’t be shy. You’re great at weighing your options, so watch which way the scales tip and go for it! Your UN-birthday party can be especially fun—if you put your mind to it. Psssst: Friends of Librans, they look good in blue ... Sapphire gems, ocean-hued clothes, and sky-blue blankies.
       Scorpios (10/23–11/21) however, are in a period of self-assessment, as we approach the powerful October 25^th Solar Eclipse. You’ll feel the influences on your connection to finances and stimulating, intimate relationships. Use this time to see yourself and others in a new way that may even inspire you to do a personal makeover. Show everyone what Aging with ATTitude truly means. It’s your UN-birthday, Scorpio 39ers, enjoy! Are you gift-buying for a Scorpio 39er? Don’t make it cheap or impersonal. Deep maroon sheets or deep-golden topaz gems are perfect!

֎ Aging with ATT-i-tude Platitude
I joke about “39 and Holding,” but seriously, in your mind, how old are you? ~ L. Rochelle 

Cheers to your Happy UN-Birthday 39ers ~ Spooky OCTOBER 2022! 
       This one’s for you, kids – Ron, Cheryl, Kim, Tammy, Lin, and Terry!

Join the 39 & Holding Club!
Celebrate 39 & Holding Day!  
Chat on Twitter: @39HoldingClub   

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And dear readers, I just want you to know that I try my best to create an informative, aesthetically creative article for you each month. However, Blogger is not a professional hosting site—but they’re free through Google. So we’re stuck with their crummy platform that doesn’t work well to manipulate images with writing. Trust me, I’ve tried for years to write articles without gaps between paragraphs and even between sentences. Sigh. Maybe I’ll win the lottery and be able to afford a professional hosting site someday. Cheers!

LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by trade, and author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books (of three) in her Blast from Your Past series, available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic Seventies!

*Important Message: Any data, links, or opinions in this site are for your information only and does not constitute legal or medical expertise of any kind. My expertise is writing and sensible reporting. Period. Please use all data, links, or my skewed opinions at your own risk.

Are you a 39er this month? Feel free to share your UN-birthday comments below (click on Comments or if it says No Comments, click that to be the first) and tell us how you really feel about your age and aging. Keep the stories coming!

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39ers Aging with ATTitude Platitude September 2022

No Exception to the Rule of the Fool 

It's finally finished ... and today is only September 8th! I know, "only" is not the word for it. But I hope you'll enjoy it now, all the way to the end. Cheers!

Can you believe it 39ers?! We’re heading into Fall ... What will you always remember about this September, m'dear 39ers? For Californians and many around the world, that's easy--every fool knows, it's the heat!

Not many parts of the globe have escaped this summer’s brutality. Sometimes you just need to count your blessings ... if you don’t live in a place that records 100-degree summers as the norm, anyway ... it hasn’t (and likely won’t) match California’s September 26, 1963’s high of 111! Want to know what the highest (or lowest) recorded temperature in your area was over past century or so? Go here ...   

Rather than hot days, let’s focus on cool fun and frolic with 39 and Holding Club! 

֎ Celebrating SEPTEMBER 39ers ~ And More!   
From here on out, we’re “falling” headfirst into the Holidays. Sorry. Couldn’t help m’self. Seriously, we have a lot to cover this month, and I for one, would like to slow everything down a bit. Please join me!
      Grab a snack and libation, get comfy, and savor our September musings! From wise words about fools Aging with ATT-i-tude, to our Monthly Song of Note ♪, we’re enjoying one minute at a time, before the frenzy of “The Holidays” ...

Do you know, it’s Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month? Sadly, it’s on the calendar, but there is no link to the originator of this designation, and I nearly brushed by it, myself, though “I ‘R’ both”—writer and editor.
      Does this happen to you? Yet another recent day with my loving family highlighted their lack of respect for my chosen profession. I’m finding that only another creative truly admires the process of creating.
      So I tip my hat to ALL Editors and Writers this month and every day. Enjoy your world, no matter what you’re creating or how successful it is. If it brings you joy, LOVE IT!

September is Classical Music Month! We’re mostly about Oldies Rock & Roll here, but I like to celebrate other forms of music, for R&R is truly a melting pot of them all. The official link takes you to a PDF of the honoring government statute, so it’s here if you’re curious.
      In the meantime, enjoy some early Rock & Roll Oldies that are inspired by or infused with Classical Music: “It’s Now or Never” by Elvis (1960); 1967’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum, and the 1973 classic, “Could It Be Magic” by Barry Manilow. Just to name a short list. Get out your ol’ turntable or find it streaming, and enjoy!

Here, kitty, kitty ... it’s National Save a Tiger Month! While I may joke, it’s a sad truth that the world population of the largest, most majestic breed of cats is in danger of extinction. The World Wildlife Foundation explains the problem succinctly and offers suggestions for how anyone can help save them. And Big Cat Rescue provides current news on efforts to save and treat tigers around the world, while showing you the inner sanctum of a big cat sanctuary. Learn, and do what you can, even if that is only spreading the word.

Well, it’s so freakin’ hot, let’s savor the cool breezes of World Beach Month! Apparently, there is a World Beach Month site and organization, but it wasn’t linked on the calendar where I snagged this info. No matter ... here it is! As their site says, “September is the month to learn, protect, celebrate, and enjoy the world’s beaches.” 

Unfortunately, as with many special holiday sites, there is nothing current, with the most recent info from 2020. The good news (and re: pollution, bad news), is info about our beaches never goes out of date. While this site was organized by folks in Florida, which focuses on pollution and such, in California, we’re in danger of losing our beach access as well, and paying an arm-and-a-leg just to get to it. As a native Californian, proverbially paying through the nose already for every tax imaginable, I have always said that our coastlines should have FREE public access at every point. So their suggestion we “... enjoy the world’s beaches” may not apply here.
      An NPR article at KQED said in 2018, “California legislators passed the California Coastal Act in 1976 as a way to protect the state's famed shoreline and to enshrine beach access for all.* But that landmark law has spawned a nearly five-decade-long tug-of-war between the state and private property owners.” Nothing much has changed. (*My italics.)

So let’s light a candle for our beaches and hope we can retain access, as we celebrate World Candle Month. If nothing else, their 2022 theme, “Lighten the mood,” is certainly appropriate! My favorite Fall scent? Warm Apple Pie ... mmmmm.

September 8^th: Quick! What’s the last letter of the alphabet?! ... Clock’s ticking! Ehhhhhhh ... buzzed out! Noooooo it is not the “Z.” And if you were in grade school around 1837, you’ll recall [😊], kids in that era recited the alphabet differently than we do.
      According to Wiki: “... recitation of the alphabet would end in ‘X, Y, Z, and per se and.’ This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand" & the term had entered common English usage by 1837.” Yes, it was the Ampersand! September 8^th is World Ampersand Day, established by Chaz DeSimone, founder of AmperArt. Trust me, you’ll never look at the squiggly keyboard key the same way again!
       Chaz has made Ampersands a fun priority in his advertising & graphic design career for decades! At his adorably fun site, you’ll even find beautiful ways to frame & display your Ampersand Art. He suggests sending a howdy to your friends whose names include “and”: &y (Andy), &rea (Andrea), Alex&er (Alexander), even Gr&ma (Grandma)! We’re just havin’ too much fun this month, readers & 39ers!

September 10^th: Of course this month’s Full Moon Magic comes from a Harvest Moon! Although it often shares its moniker with the October moon, as with all moons there are other names that have different meanings for different people. What comes to mind when you call it Autumn Moon, or Child Moon, for instance? My favorite name for September’s moon, however, is Mating Moon ... especially when I hear the slow calls of the coyotes in the canyon. What?! What did you think I meant? LOL

September 18^th-24^th: This week is National Indoor Plant Week, so let’s take a breather from the fun and mellow out with our therapeutic plants. If you don’t have any indoor plants, do you know why you should bother? As the site says, “The oxygen doesn’t arrive until the plants do!” (Unfortunately, they seemed to have abandoned their site in 2020—no new info, but we’ll take care of you!)
      For a breath of fresh air, purchase and pamper these attractive plants: Philodendrons, English Ivy, Peace Lily, Bromeliads, and the hardy Rubber plants, to name a few growable lovelies.
     Although my fave plant isn’t particularly cleansing, the Dracaena sanderiana or “Lucky Bamboo” is considered good luck by many cultures. I have cultivated mine since its babyhood in 2016 at approximately 4” tall in a 2” pot, to its current 5-1/2 feet tall, in a 10” pot!
      Says one site, “With its sculptural appearance that can be trained to grow in attractive shapes, lucky bamboo is often used in feng shui and is thought to bring prosperity and joy.” Since I’ve had it, it’s brought joy, yes ... prosperity, not so much. They’ve been some of the worst six years of my life. I just love it for what it is ... beautiful. 

September 17^th: I would feel the chill of my dear mother’s ghost if I didn’t include National Dance Day! Yep, that’s me, many moons ago. No, I didn’t make dance my career. But my dance instructor mother saw to it that this geeky girl learned nearly every type of dance under the pop and cultural sun of the day. I even learned how to Hula and dances of the early settler pilgrims. She was a gem among dancing gems. What are you doing just sitting there?! Get up and DANCE!

September 25^th: What are your September New Moon Musings? Do you have a telescope to scope out the monthly “dark side” of the moon? No matter how dark you feel three days after the Fall Equinox, the New Moon is ready to send you into a New Beginning. No need to justify (September’s scales do that for you), just use your negotiating skills and remember life is a team effort. In this month’s opposition to the full moon, it’s time to consider your options for what comes next ... it’s all up to you.

September 25^th: Coffee lovers and 39ers unite! Wake up and smell National Coffee Day. So, I think coffee is good for us again. At least, in moderation, like all things internationally loved ... chocolate, eggs, and bread (just not white). In recent years I’ve been dedicated to flavored coffees—sipped black and home brewed—no Starbucks sugary, massive caffeine concoctions, thank you. Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but occasionally, I slip in a little Irish Crème. A yummy Sunday morning treat. 😊

֎ Monthly Song of Note ♪ 
A talented trio of R&B/Pop artists and a great song, The Main Ingredient’s “Everybody Plays the Fool,” was destined for great popularity, but nearly makes the One-Hit Wonder grade. September 1972, it just grabbed the bottom of KERN/Bakersfield, California’s, chart at #30; and already up to #16 at WFIL/Philadelphia, straddling our 2-fer Featured Radio Survey on the BFYP site.
       They were surely destined for more, but “Fool” came shortly after one of their main ingredients died from leukemia early in their success, and they never quite got their mojo back ... ♪ Well, before you do anything rash | Dig this! ... ♪ ... more tuneful tidbits to manifest your memories of 1972, 50 Years Ago this Month!   

֎ For 39ers who Follow the Stars … 

Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, when it comes to September weather, “... you never know what you’re gonna get.” Virgo (08/23-09/22) and Libra (09/23-10/22) 39ers are also a mixed bag of emotions and actions this month.
      Through to the middle of the month with Virgo, your confidence is stunning, but over-confidence can lead to trouble. Know your worth, but mix it with a little humility. This can affect both personal and professional aspects of your life all month. However, take heart, things will even out toward the end of the month.
      Libra, m’dears, don’t be surprised if chaos reigns in the early days of September. Mind your manners and your mind ... before you speak. Like with Virgo, by the New Moon, you’ll know better which way to turn, what to say, and most importantly, how to say it.
      As a friend of Virgo and Librans, the best you can do 39ers, is offer a nonjudgmental ear and a hug, while you help them plan their Un-birthday parties. Gift hint: September’s beautiful blue sapphire is always a great choice to soothe the soul.

֎ Aging with ATT-i-tude Platitude 
What is the 39er “Rule of the Fool”? When you Age with ATT-i-tude you aren’t one! ~ L. Rochelle 

Cheers to your Happy UN-Birthday 39ers ~ SEPTEMBER 2022! 
       This one’s for you, kids – Bob, Jennifer, Karen, Thomas, Chad Scott, and Verne!

Join the 39 & Holding Club!
Celebrate 39 & Holding Day!
Chat on Twitter: @39HoldingClub
Club 39 Nifty Gifts 

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And dear readers, I just want you to know that I try my best to create an informative, aesthetically creative article for you each month. However, Blogger is not a professional hosting site—but they’re free through Google. So we’re stuck with their crummy platform that doesn’t work well to manipulate images with writing. Trust me, I’ve tried for years to write articles without gaps between paragraphs and even between sentences. Sigh. Maybe I’ll win the lottery and be able to afford a professional hosting site someday. Cheers!

LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by trade, and author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books (of three) in her Blast from Your Past series, available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic Seventies!

*Important Message: Any data, links, or opinions in this site are for your information only and does not constitute legal or medical expertise of any kind. My expertise is writing and sensible reporting. Period. Please use all data, links, or my skewed opinions at your own risk.

Are you a 39er this month? Feel free to share your UN-birthday comments below (click on Comments or if it says No Comments, click that to be the first) and tell us how you really feel about your age and aging. Keep the stories coming!

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