Curiosity! A free gift for a rich life. “Curiosity” definitely needs some outdoor exercise. We can go out! But only locally. Where to go? “Curiosity” is my best ever gift. Suspect that my Mother gave it to me. This is how: Each week as bedtime reading she read us…
Bodies create their own version of rules. One of them seems to be something like, “If there is a problem find an alternative solution, something easier”. But dont bother to tell your owner, just do it.
Stranded! Beached whale feeling. But that rapidly turned to chuckles.
“I have to ask for help to get up from a chair in the office of an organisation that espouses Age Friendly places!”
Lovely….However what was really interesting was that it had never occurred to them.
Such a shame, no one there to video it….almost certainly would have gone viral!
One of the many delightful surprises in this Strange Land of Old Age, has been this calm acceptance, this adjustment to later life. The change in the focus of pleasures that one cannot imagine at all when you are younger.
‘You are old Grandma Williams,’ the young one said,
‘But your hair has not yet gone white
and yet you repeatedly stay in your bed.
Do you think at your age that is right?’
We have to alter the distorted image of later years, this lack of understanding of our lifestyle and its quality.
