October 1 – Darem Placer

World Vegetarian Day • October 1

[Elmer Fudd tiptoeing with a frying pan, looking for meat. Bugs Bunny pops up chewing a carrot.]

🐰 Bugs Bunny: “Eh, what’s cookin’, Doc?”

👨‍🦲 Elmer Fudd: “I’m twyin’ to make a big meaty stew, wabbit!”

🐰 Bugs Bunny: “Stew? With all that cholesterol? Doc, you’ll be slower than Yosemite Sam on roller skates.”

👨‍🦲 Elmer Fudd: “But I need pwo-tein!”

🐰 Bugs Bunny: [munches carrot] “Veggies got protein too. Beans, peas, lentils—y’know, the smart foods. They don’t run away like chickens, either.”

👨‍🦲 Elmer Fudd: “Weawwy? You mean I don’t hafta chase them awound?”

🐰 Bugs Bunny: “Exactly, Doc. You just boil ‘em, season ‘em, and voilà—no hunting license required.”

👨‍🦲 Elmer Fudd: [drops frying pan] “Guess I’ve been huntin’ the wong thing!”

🐰 Bugs Bunny: “That’s the spirit. Now c’mon—let’s stew some carrots instead.”

ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

International Day of Older Persons • October 1

A grandpa once told me, “Sixty is when people stop looking at your face and start counting your years.” For him, the age was both a gift and a burden.

At sixty, society calls you “older.” You gain benefits, respect, sometimes pity. To some, it feels like an award for survival. To others, it feels like the end of something.

He said the hardest part wasn’t the wrinkles or the slower steps. It was being treated as if his dreams had expired. Inside, he still wanted to laugh, work, and love—just like before.

But he also admitted there’s beauty in sixty. The lessons of loss and healing made him wiser. The weight of years turned into a kind of quiet strength, a treasure the young can’t rush to have.

So maybe the dilemma of turning sixty is this: it can scare you, it can free you. In the end, sixty is not the end of life—it’s the start of a different kind of living.