flakes of nuisance » authors http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the younghttp://mcneillfamily.com/2009/09/28/advice-like-youth-probably-just-wasted-on-the-young/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2009/09/28/advice-like-youth-probably-just-wasted-on-the-young/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:38:26 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=1263 If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you [

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