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Lessons Learned on 60-Year Journey
What I mean to say… I recently attended my sixty-year high school class reunion. While making the three-hundred-mile trip across the state to the small farming town where I have not lived for the last forty years, I kept asking myself, “Why? What do I expect?” I only maintain contact with two of the forty-two…
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Community and Compassion in Aging
Another birthday is on the horizon. I recently had a conversation with my twenty-one-year-old granddaughter who asked, “What was your favorite time?” Pondering the question, not trying to overthink it, I answered, “Now. I am glad to be alive, to have survived and grown from my experiences, and grateful for my health.” Even though I…
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Celebrating Life Together: Our 60th Anniversary
On November 21, 2021, David and I were in San Diego, waiting for our dinner reservation at the Hotel Del Coronado. We found a bench on the beach and sat, facing west, enjoying the sunset. A woman came from the condo behind us and told us she and her friends were watching us. We looked…
