The secret lies in how we handle today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Today…that special block of time holding the keys that lock our yesterday’s nightmares and unlocks tomorrow’s dreams. Chuck Swindoll

Beginning a new year is always exciting. A part of that is usually beginning the New Year with a resolution.

Usually a New Year resolution is to feel better. A New Year resolution is to make a conscious decision about our physical and mental well-being.

We all want to add years to our life-high quality, health filled, vibrant years. As we journey into the New Year we will encounter opportunities and obstacles.

Let’s fill the unwritten pages and savor the unblemished days ahead with abundant living. Piling up with the years, come hours and days imprisoning us to aging.

A question of age: What does it mean to get old? One thing is guaranteed we will get older. It is one of life’s promises. There is no stopping it.

As the age expectancy has increased dramatically in the past century medical researchers have been faced with a major ethical dilemma: Are we extending the finality of life at the expense of the quality of life?

As complex as medical science can be, there are only two real questions in medicine: How long will you live? And how healthy and vigorous will your life be?

As Dr. Michael F. Roizen, author of “Real Age,” says it is his job to cure people after they are already sick. But preventing illness in the first place is always the best cure.

Also the National Institute on Aging has made enormous progress in research on growing older and longevity. Discovering what happens in aging will allow the institute to develop insights and interventions that promote health and prevent disease.

What we are seeking are ways to embrace aging and make it the best it can be. Brutally cold temperatures forecast for Jan. 6 have forced the 2018 Atlantic Plunge to benefit Caring Unlimited to be postponed to its storm date on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018 at the same time and place.

The Atlantic Plunge is one of Caring Unlimited’s major annual fundraisers. Registration begins at 10 a.m. the morning of the event at Gooch’s Beach on Beach Avenue in Kennebunk. The person who has turned in the most pledges at the time of the event will be awarded a Highest Fundraisers prize of a $250. L.L. Bean Gift Card.

For more information, please contact Sherry Edwards, Assistant Director, Caring Unlimited. sedwards@caringunlimited.org or tel. 490-3227 ext. 105 or the 24-hour hotline at 1-800-229-7298 or visit www.caring–unlimited.org

Caring Unlimited is York County’s Domestic Violence Resource Center. Also the Annual Lobster Dip at Old Orchard Beach, Maine has been rescheduled for the first time in 30 years. The weather service says by the weekend more bitterly cold air arrives.