If you're 60 or older, come join me. Let's talk, hang out, tease and support each other.

[Gina]

Originally Posted by cinderella

Isn't that where the corn is as high as an elephants eye?

Maybe they're left-overs from your neighbor's last BBQ.

Cinderella - I don't have any corn crops...but there are squirrels around..this is toward the end of April and I woke up to snow covering the ground..I should be planting flowers instead of shoveling snow....

[ArkansasPiscesGrrl]

Popping in here myself, it is good to see the thread active. It still comes as a shock to my mind that I qualify to post here, too! (like hey, when and more importantly HOW did THAT happen, that I crossed that milestone and hit 60?? And now actually 61!!)

I don't feel 60 most days, or at least not what I imagine 60 is supposed to feel like. I don't look or act 60 most days, or at least what I imagine 60 is supposed to look or act like. So of course it makes sense to me that it does cause a feeling of disconnect for me when I am reminded of my actual age.

Well, time to head back to work here. Starting my own business at the age of 59, is still kinda scary, but really REALLY nice. I am also seriously looking forward to heading down to Austin in 2 days to see so many friends from here at the Halfway to Reunion party. I am in serious need of some good BF energy!

APG, aka Ann

[iamkeri1]

I have been pretty much without a computer for a month, except for quick trips to the library to check my bank balance. The super cute straight couple that I sold my Michigan home to August 2011, turned out to be super awful instead. They stopped paying late fall 2012 and told me they had moved out leaving the house clean and ready to go. What with my daughter getting married, and the very cold Northern winter this year (not mention my reunion in February with Ben, a wonderful man, my previous partner, from whom I had been separated for almost a year), we delayed coming,

In mid-April we arrived to find my home a disaster, Mr and Ms nice guy had turned my lovely cottage on the lake into a grow house for marijuana, ripping out walls and wiring, (and closets - now who rips out closets? - you can tell she was no femme. LOL) and ruining every carpet in the home. Two large blessings ... both the furnace and the plumbing remained intact. Good thing, because the night these Florida folks hit Michigan, the temp was 31 actual and 25 wind chill, and we needed that furnace badly.


Slowly, slowly we have been cleaning and planning each next step to take. Had Ben not been with me, I think I would have just gotten back in to the car and gone home. The place was so filthy I oculdn't imagine that anyone had actually lived here. I forgot to mention, they stole the track for the garage door, so we couldn't even get in the house. I am a wheelchair (electric scooter) user, and they took out all the ramps I had installed, except, thank the universe, the large ramp that allows access to the upper level., which was somewhat liveable.

To put it mildly it has been an adventure. We have gotten the place pretty well cleaned up, had the garage door repaired, bought a comfortable bed and a cheap refrigerator. And yesterday, after a two week struggle, and having made three trips to town to provide more and more proof that we were NOT the people they allowed to run up a huge cable bill, Comcast finally turned on our internet service YAAAAAAY!!!

We got the bills paid yesterday and are having a lazy, lay around the house day today. Ben , who was up and busy for a while climbed back into bed where I was playing solitaire on the laptop, and is now snoring away beside me.


Hope you have all been having a wonderful day week and month, with as much adventure, but less agitation than I have been having this last little while.
Smooches,
Keri

[Greco]

iamkeri1, may all be well with you these days.

Today...today I arrived at the office and found an email that a colleague's partner had passed suddenly...my heart went out to her. I know from experience that there is nothing I could say to make it better, but I could and did simply...listen...listen.

How often are any of us ever really just listened too? You know, no advice giving...just listening...to her sense of loss...her shock...listening and holding a quiet place where she could talk, and know that her words fell on caring ears, a caring mind, and a caring person...listening.

Frankly, tonight I went on my after work run...and I listened to myself, felt my feelings of loss, of wonder at this mysterious life, and gave thanks for her gift to me...allowing me to be a person that could be there for her...simply being me...nothing more...nothing less.

So, why am I sharing all of this with you? Honestly, to listen to myself, and know how much I've grown not outwardly, but internally.

When I was much younger I knew all of the answers, so I thought. Now I know that the most precious thing are the moments, each moment of a day when I can be in the moment, and open to it's call.

Perhaps a call to simply...listen.

Thank you for reading.

Sending you warm thoughts, Greco

[rockybcn]

Thanks Greco for sharing your insight and compassion for both others and yourself.....we are physically changing as years progress....but internally...we are alive and blessed with a vibrance and understanding that our younger years nary possessed.....we have wisdom!

a little music nostalgia for us old timers.....
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCDRIfdRI8s"]Beverly Bremers - Dont Say You Dont Remember - HD Bubblerock Promo - YouTube[/nomedia]

[Greco]

Well said rockybcn...and thank you.

Greco

Originally Posted by rockybcn

Thanks Greco for sharing your insight and compassion for both others and yourself.....we are physically changing as years progress....but internally...we are alive and blessed with a vibrance and understanding that our younger years nary possessed.....we have wisdom!

a little music nostalgia for us old timers.....
Beverly Bremers - Dont Say You Dont Remember - HD Bubblerock Promo - YouTube

[Sweet_Amor_Taino]

I turned 60 on May 20th 2013 and I am still not use to hearing Senior Citizen. A few of my friends and I were sitting around talking and one said Do you know that on Tuesday is Senior Citizens day and you get 20 % off My friend Ruby and I turned to look at each other and burst out laughing my friend Ellen said WHAT I am 71 and I look good I am not a shame of being a senior. I responded by saying I know girl but we are just not use to it yet. I am happy to have celebrated my 60th birthday.