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My name is Lois Pearlman (ph). I am 78

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years old. I have four daughters,
beautiful, splendid daughters.

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Eight amazing, wonderful
grandchildren. And,

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I have emphysema. [music]

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I want this film to be seen
by people that are on oxygen

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and have been having difficulty
confronting their negative positions

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about what it is they have going on. It
was very difficult for me to confront

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my own positions about going
out with oxygen. At the

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beginning I didn\'t use the oxygen
because I didn\'t want to appear

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like somehow using oxyge-,
oxygen would diminish my power.

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I have found that isn\'t so, so now

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I do everything, on oxygen.

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I go to the supermarket. I use the oxygen
in the supermarket. I resisted that

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at first. I didn\'t want to go
in and walk around and appear

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like I needed some kind
of physical support.

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And then I finally figured, listen, uh, halfway through
the market before I wore the oxygen, I would get really

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tired and I would have to leave. So I figured this
is ridiculous. I might as well have a good time.

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So I started to take it in with me. You stick
it in the cart and you go through the store.

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That\'s all. You get used to it. Originally
I wanted this film to be called Oi Vey

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Oxygen because it\'s not something
that you expect to have turn

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up in your life. It\'s just not something you
ever think you\'re going to have to deal with.

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And then when you do, it, it\'s a shock.
So then the mission becomes

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to use it and have it be

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cool. Oi Vey! This is a really nice poem.

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This is Mary Oliver. Usually there\'s somebody in
the room that knows this poem. Anybody know this?

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I teach a class at the Osher
Academy for Lifelong Learning

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Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
And the name of it is Aging with Wit

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and Wisdom. And it\'s about
aging and being the age

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that you are and really enjoying your
life and not going back wishing you

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were someplace else or some time else. Go
into your mind and give me two answers

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to things. First of all, what\'s the
society\'s position about us as

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aging people? Just give me an answer.
Losing value. Losing value.

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To be ignored. To be ignored. Cast them
away, put them away. To put them away.

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Right. Okay. I was going to say
ignored, same thing. Ignored

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Being more acceptable. Being more acceptable?
Yeah. Okay. I think so too. It\'s changing

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from what it used to be. Okay. Uhm, I think

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demanding. Okay. Minnie?
Lost our ability to think.

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That doesn\'t sound too good does it?
Doesn\'t sound too good.

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Most of the positions that I\'m told about, about aging,
are pretty negative. So I want them to know that

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this is a terrific time of your life, full
of joy, full of aliveness, full of learning.

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It just isn\'t youth. And the
principles of that class

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actually also apply to how I deal with
oxygen in my life. The major principle

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is that in your brain, in your brain
machine you have a storage vault.

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All the things that have been told to you your
entire life, everything you know, everything

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you think, everything you have learned
is stored in your brain. Where did those

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answers come from? The position
about aging, the (inaudible)

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about aging, where\'d all

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those positions come from? Do you remember?
Over the years people describing it

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that way. But how did they get in the room?
Oh, I just-Did they float in the air?

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That\'s right they, they came in, I came in.
How\'d they get in the room? They came with me.

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>How\'d you carry them in? On the perceptions
that I\'ve always had. But where do you have

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those perceptions stored? In my brain.
Correct. Your positions in your brain,

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I call them peanuts. P-E-A-N-u-T-s.

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Now that\'s an acronym for Position,
Evidence, Agreement, Non-Useful,

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Tapes. So you have all these positions
about what it\'s like to age.

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You have all these positions about
how older people are regarded.

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And you have all these positions about having
something wrong with your body. You have evidence

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to determine the positions you have
taken are valid. You collect evidence

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your entire life on a position you have taken
and then you surround yourself with people

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who give you agreement. So you have position,
you have evidence, you have agreement.

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You have the truth, right?
Now who has the right truth?

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Everybody has a different truth based on what you\'re
saying. That\'s right. Who has THE truth? Nobody.

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Well, if you have a position that,
it livens you, that gives you power,

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that gives you energy, that makes your life fuller,
that, and contributes to the lives of others,

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that\'s good. If it in any way diminishes

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like this does me, my capacity to

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move and live the idea,

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then it\'s a non-useful

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tape. You run your life out of these
tapes that determine your positions.

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It\'s almost automatic. If
your positions don\'t suit you

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and don\'t support you what you get
to do is if you have a tape that\'s

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says aging is difficult, if you have a tape that says
I don\'t want to go out with this stuff up my nose,

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if you have a tape that says I don\'t
want to do it this way, you say cancel.

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And you put in a new tape. All
right, we\'re gonna slowly warm up.

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You should be feeling it already. Silver
Sneakers is an exercise program designed for

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people of a certain age, for seniors. I mean we
don\'t like the word seniors. People in their

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vigorage. All right, we\'re going to change it up a
little bit. We\'re going to take our heels to the

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front, push those arms down. I\'ve been doing the
Silver Sneakers program for about five years.

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It\'s terrific. It\'s, its\' the
right level of pressure. I can

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do it with oxygen. You don\'t move
around the room and I find it very

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beneficial. As I go now through
the years I have, I have to

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limit what it is that I can do. You
cut it in half. If she\'s going

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1, 2, 3, 4, you go 1, 2, 3, 4.

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You cut it in half. You don\'t have to march
at that pace. You can do stuff. You don\'t

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raise your hands over your head too much but
you do things that allow you to be there

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and you don\'t have to keep up the pace
that the other people are keeping up.

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And I like it a lot and the people are fun.
It\'s just, it\'s a good time. I think whatever

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age you are, you should be out.
You should be moving around.

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You should absolutely move and live to your

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capacity. And if tools, like
oxygen, enhance your capacity,

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terrific. 78, there are
people in Silver Sneakers

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that are, that are older. I know other
people that are older. I don\'t think 78

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means anything anymore. I don\'t feel
like an old person. I don\'t feel

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like an old person and
I am an older person.

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I\'m not a young person. I don\'t feel like a young person
cause I\'m not young. I\'m just in good shape and I\'m 78

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and I feel terrific. Let\'s put it that way.

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[sil.]