Turning 66 in 31 days has changed me some. Now if someone wants to be wrong at least 50% of the time I try not to share "that is stupid' look.

With very little input I can visualize the outcome of most any current action quite accurately.

This makes life harder in the short run when I know the outcome is going to be bad especially if people are going to get hurt in the end.

A painful case in point in 2003 I became a trustee of a small college and we only met 3 times a year yet I picked up on things the President would say that did not compute. In talking with some leaders at his last job as a college President I learned he had all but bankrupted that college before they quickly fired him. He had been hired 4 years before I went on the board.

In 2004 I gave a full report of my findings to the full board of trustees at we were are risk of losing the college if we left the current president in place. In 2014 we closed the college because US Dept of Ed cut off all access to Title IV monies as of August 2013. They had informed us in Aug 2011 that this would happen if we did not make corrections but the Chairman of the Trustees and the President kept this report from the full board or even the Finance Committee. 2000 students and 200 faculty and staff got blind sided. The trustees did not learn this fact until 20 Feb 2014 after I got a conference call set up with the US Dept of Ed and the full Finance Committee.

On the up side this event lead to my health crashing. In August the doctors wanted to start me on Enbrel injections in November. On a hunch cutting out sugar and all grains would save me from Enbrel injections and those potential side effects lead me to become LCHF before I even heard of the term.

In my life it seems the worse the mess I find myself in the better I am long term.

Health is better at 65 than at 45 as well as all my other health markers. Had I not set my goal to live to be 110 (as a joke at first) I am not sure I would have turned around my way of eating in Oct 2014.

@Sunny_Bunny_ sometimes we just have to make a stand. I got kicked off the board of Trustees 14 July 2014 because after lying to the students they wanted to turn around and try to collect a lot of money from them because the US Dept of Ed had cut us off. The school has been out of business for 2.5 years and some students are still in the mess and the remaining trustees are managing the end stage of bankruptcy.

I knew many that had given most of their lives to build that Christian college since 1949 so watching dishonest people destroy the college and what it stood for hurt. But again its death may have saved my life at this point in time because I was crashing hard and fast in the fall of 2014 in part due to this mess.

I had to ask myself Who I Was and What Was I Going To Do in that case. Actually it was my then 16 year old daughter that encouraged me the most. Both kids went with me to the TV station for me to break the bad news to the community because the trustees even after knowing the full facts were trying to cover up the mess that had been created in the process of crashing the college.

40 years ago I realized I only had to live with one person the rest of my life. Living a life that I could live with myself as colored every day of the last 40 years. I do not know why I am this way but I would not have it any other way today.