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Where I live -- finally.
My relatively good health at 73.
My friends, some for 50 years, and family.
I've also come to appreciate the choices and decisions that turned out to be good ones early in life when I really didn't know what I was doing.
Being alone. I have such good memories of family and friends when my life was full and crowded. Now I share a home in a remote setting with a friend who is very much a loner. We often see each other only for an hour in the evening. The rest of the day, I occasionally lunch with a friend, and I do errands where I have brief friendly exchanges, but most of the time I’m by myself with my thoughts, the internet, or a book. The solitude has become something I enjoy and seek out. It seeps into your bones, the way office life and parties and full households once did. I love just driving out to Lake Michigan and sitting by myself in my car for an hour, watching the lake and the sky and letting my thoughts drift.
Alone is not lonely.
When I go off shore in my boat and only ocean and sky are seen, I can see what my eyes never will.
I appreciate walking. Been a left foot amputee since November13, 2020. Year to recouperate. Year to relearn how to balance and to walk again. I can do what I did before except not without a plan and not as fast. Never forget to appreciate appendages God gave you.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Doctors, and prescription medications. We used to make fun of my Mom, who took 10-12 pills every morning in her 80s. We're not that old yet but I take 5 a day and my wife takes 6, so we're getting there. They keep us going, so we're grateful that they exist.
Doctors, and prescription medications. We used to make fun of my Mom, who took 10-12 pills every morning in her 80s. We're not that old yet but I take 5 a day and my wife takes 6, so we're getting there. They keep us going, so we're grateful that they exist.
Weird...not one single person said "the older I get the more I appreciated my job when I was working..."
And yet how many Americans literally work themselves to death with worry that they're going to run out of money in retirement...
The financial industry and their partners in academia have done such a wonderful job scaring the living daylights out of people. Saddens me deeply
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