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Age Boldly: What's Better Than Not Looking Your Age?
Plus, 2 new trips for 2026--Paris in the Spring and Trekking in the Himalayas
The Jeannies at NextTribe
July 31, 2025
Greetings!
After a sad Friday last week, spent at a college friend’s mother’s funeral, Jeannie Ralston changed the mood—with, she hopes, no disrespect to the lovely woman who passed. Ralston thoroughly believes in the Mexican saying, which we fully embrace on our Dia de los Muertos trip to San Miguel de Allende. “Don’t be afraid of dying. Be afraid of not living.”
She went straight to another college friend’s lake house and exalted in the beauty of another weekend on this Earth, a particularly exciting weekend. She calls Ellesor “the friend who keeps me young.” In this article, you will see a photo taken five years ago that looks just like the one on a jetski below. It’s important, both of them agree, to keep thrilling yourself and to do a fun check to make sure you’re not acting your age, which she thinks is more important than not looking your age.
We hope to still be doing this at 85!!
Jeannie Edmunds is thrilled to be able to see better out of her right eye after cataract surgery yesterday. She says she can’t wait to get the other eye done in two weeks. “I’ve been so frustrated with my glasses for the last year or two. I can’t believe I waited this long to get it done. It was a 5-minute procedure with a little Propofol, then no need for pain meds when I came home. It’s a miracle!”
Doing her Ray-Charles-at-the-keyboard impression. Cataract surgery is the only reason she tolerates wearing sunglasses that scream “OLD LADY IN THE WILD!!”
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And from the archives…about sisterhood.
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Happy travels—
Jeannie Ralston, CEO + Jeannie Edmunds, Chief Operating Officer
Trip Previews Coming up Next
Aug. 4. Venice with an Art Expert 6:30PM ET RSVP here
Aug 11: Trekking the Himalayas 8PM ET RSVP here.
Aug 19: Last Chance! Greece Creativity Retreat. RSVP here.
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