Had my first fall yesterday; shattered my confidence re staying in my home alone.

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7. Sending you love, respect and appreciation

You said you think you are ‘one of the eldest’. The beauty of a long life is a real blessing to those of us lucky enough to know the eldest among us. As humans, I think the most beautiful are 1) babies who come in shiny and innocent like a blank canvas; and 2) the eldest who are spiritually rich and absolutely beautiful like a canvas that is near to becoming a masterpiece, with rich layers of life providing depth, subtlety, meaning.

I had the privilege of caring for someone who was in his late eighties, and the life that he lived was endlessly interesting, since i was old enough by then to appreciate what it meant to have experienced history.

At 63 I am not quite a senior, i suppose. But one of my grandmothers and one grandfather was born around 1860. So I always have had a sense of history as if it were day before yesterday, not a million years ago.

I hope you can find things to cherish and enjoy each day, and be consoled that…to be fragile is to be alive, and each day of your shared thoughts is an honest blessing to all of us here.