With beautiful, blue skies as a backdrop, 106 amazing women reduced their “but” on Saturday, in Baldwin, WI, to set a world skydiving record, while greatly enhancing their mojo, AND helping abused women.   Here are some of their stories.

“My reason for jumping…

I am a personal care provider for a 17 year old who cannot walk, has the cognitive ability of a 3 year old, and an elderly couple in their 90’s. Working with them has given me the desire to live MY life to the fullest. My 91 year old man sits in his recliner day in and day out, healthy as can be, but not wanting to participate in life anymore.

People comment frequently: “I can’t believe I’m—(lets say) 60,— I feel like I am 45”.  It seems like many of us are blessed with confusion between the age that our birth certificate legally states we are and what our brain and body swear couldn’t be true. 

Learning health and attitude skills to combat some of the predictable woes of the aging process can actually buy us time along the continuum from birth to the obits.  That place in time where our physical and mental health trump our chronological age is referred to, by an internet site, (of the same name), as our “real age”.  And because we are the society of overachievers that we are, there is a test to quantify that age.  It is predictably called, the “Real Age” test.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”

Our kudos to those wonderful women who have already signed up to skydive with us, (Jean), on August 28, AgingButDangerous admires your commitment.   We have had wonderful conversations with you about this very topic of overcoming fear to accomplish something that you have always dreamed of doing.  Eleanor would be proud.