Cora Banderthall is 79 Years Young.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

Written By Nika Patrice

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1 That Dude at the Pinkberry

That twinkly young man at the pinkberry who keeps flirting with you is not worth it.

Keep your eye on that man who is telling you, you can be anything you want to be, and is making you feel so cozy.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.) 

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2 Sacrifice and Desire

They keep telling you sacrifice is the way to meaning, but they’re not saying the same thing to that girl over there. Ask yourself why?

Why she’s allowed to center the desires that she has for her own life?

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3 You Are not just a Wing a Thigh and a Breast

When I was your age, a friend of mine told me that a man who is talking about you in body parts doesn’t care about you.

Or doesn’t care about you yet.

A man is talking about you like you’re a thigh, a wing, and a breast, and a little bit of side, primarily talking about you that way, let that man go sweetuns, let that man go.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

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4 A Man needs to know how to cook the food he likes.

A Man needs to know how to cook the food he likes.

Otherwise, he’ll just be following around cooking he likes for his whole life.

Married to cooking.

Same for a woman. She needs to know how to do the important things for herself too, you know what I mean.

I mean, you don’t want to be following around a wrench your whole life,

…Do You?

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

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5 Stop and Dance Right Out Here in this Nature

Nature may seem like it is going to be here forever,

but you aren’t.

Make sure you spend as much time with it as you can.

You’ll be back, a part of the wind, and the rain, and the trees, and the lands, and the skies, soon enough.

But right now you get to really enjoy it, to feel it, hear it, see it, know it, from right where you are.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

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6

Caring About You, Honey, And Not Just “About Those Goods.”

Hey, 

if you’re going to go down that road, 

you know exactly the road that I mean, 

make sure they care about you honey 

— you honey —

and not just about the 

gifts, abilities, and the light that might be inside you.

you, meaning the things that are important to you…

and not just to get to that other stuff either,

and not just to get to “the goods”

in your heart, and mind, or anywhere else.

and because they actually just do care, honey,

they actually just do care.

and if you sit still for a second, honey, you 

can actually 

feel 

the difference, 

you can actually 

feel 

it 

in 

your body.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

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7 Some Kind of Truth, Honey

People manage to not say
and to not do things all day.
Now, I’m not saying that doesn’t
mean
people don’t say things
they wish they hadn’t
or people don’t say things
that they
haven’t yet fully thought
or worked through.
or
don’t mean as a loving
joke and
maybe
that’s
all

what I’m saying is
if
it was actually said
and
it was actually done

I wouldn’t dismiss it

because maybe maybe it was
coming
from some kind of truth, honey,
maybe it was
coming from some kind
of
truth.

and that truth
that truth, honey,
it
could help
you
them
and everyone involved
get more
get
so
much
more
of what
they actually,
what they actually,
want,
would enjoy,
and are actually here in this world
for.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

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8 Also There and With You When Things Go Good

Perfectly fine to be weary

of someone who is excited 

to help you fight through the struggle

but not so excited when things

are going so … good. 

When things are going … so so good.

You deserve for things to go so ——- good.

and to have

the ones

who are

going to

be 

there

with 

you 

through 

it 

all.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

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9 Consider Who is Saying That, Honey

Don’t listen to
someone with a trust fund
who is telling you
they’re an
“Artiste”
and their
dad is
“An Artiste”
and you’re
just
more
of
a
business
person,
I mean they love you,
and admire you so much
but,
…you’re
just
more
of
a
business
person

because you’re admiring
how someone
runs
this business
of hers
and because
you do
that
a lot

I mean like she said
you
even
have a
SMARTPHONE
for
Goodness sakes

and she
is
a
real
* artiste *
whose
events
for
today
are
brushing
her
hair

getting
in
that
sensible
foreign
sports
car
of
hers

and
maybe
driving
to
that
second
house

they
barely
get
to
visit

because
who
even
has
the
time

and
meanwhile
you’re like,
along with
artists
and
stuff,
fascinated
by
these
ceos
even
though
you
don’t
have
the
true
desire
to
be
one

but her dad is
an
artiste
and
one
of
the
few
people
who
made
money
through
something
good

not
through
like
business
and
like
that
ugh
stuff
like
ugh
ceos
but
through

like

the
sheer
and
staggering
genius
of
his
art

so
you
should
be
admiring
him
and
by
extension
her
who
then
gets
to
live
off
of
him

not

ceos

and

stuff

even
though
art
is
your
whole
life

but
still
you’re
more
of
a
business
person
but
they
her
and
her
genius
staggering
brilliant
artist
of
a
father

traffic
more
in
real

art.

not
through
business
not like
these ceos

but
through

the
pure
and
true
and
sheer
brilliance
of
his
art.

honey
honey
honey
honey

i repeat
do
not
listen
to
her

they
do
not
give
you
food
shelter

any
of
those
loved
beloved
things
for

art
or
knowing
legal
stuff
or
having
a
legal
degree
medical
degree
I.T.
knowledge
any
of it

you
find
a
way
to
exchange
the
thing
with
someone
something
who
values
it
the art
medical
knowledge
legal
degree
I.T. skills
knowing
foreign
languages
all
of
it

you
find
ways

lots
of
ways
to
exchange
it
with
people
who
value
it

ask
people
with
medical
legal
I.T.
degrees

who
were
wondering
after
graduating

where
all
this
free
and
easy
money
and
employment
was
that

they were promised.

you have to
find
someone
who
sees

like
offers
some
value
for it

no
matter
what
it
is

or
else
you
will

starve.

and
that
exchange

finding
a
way
to
be
part
of
it

that

exchange

is

called

business.

but

it

is

also

called

art.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)

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10 If Later is Now, Then it is Better Than Never.

There’s a time in every woman’s life when she’s got to say “— that, and — this, and — em.” Nobody is going to live this life but me. Same for any man or any person. For some, it happens sooner than later, if death, or tragedy, comes into their life way too young, or way too soon.

But if it comes later that’s okay, too.

Later is Later, you know what I mean?

Later is later.

That means you’re still doing it.

It’s still happening.

Later is later.

That means it’s still happening.

Later is later.

That means you’re still doing it.

Later is later

That means

You

didn’t let

it be

Never.

~ Cora Banderthall is 79.

(80 Year Old Cora Gives Brilliant Advice.)