Just watched Tony Bennet's 90th birthday party online (NBC) and so enjoyed the music, including k.d. Lang, Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, Andrea Bocelli, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, and others. Who knew Kevin Spacey could sing?
The most inspiring part, to me, was watching the animated and kind face of Tony Bennet as he responded to other singers and hearing him sing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" and three other songs.
We need more role models of people continuing to do the work they love into their nineties.
Esther Vexler, featured in Bonnie Lyons' and Deb Fields' book, Wonderful Old Women, taught yoga into her nineties and died at 98, shortly after her husband died at 101.
Younger people doing what they love is remarkable, but people who don't stop at 90 are the real beacons to the rest of us.
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