Sharon, thank you so much for your thougths put into such a beautiful poetic prose. I think we all can relate them to ourselves during this time. I agree with Susie, this should be in your book.

Christmas and New Year is a difficult time for many who have lost loved ones, especially if the loss has occurred during this time. Nancy, please accept my condolences. Your dear friend is now resting with the friends she herself had lost and missed.

Magga, your words are so beautiful.
And those beautiful words are reflected in your face.

Reminds me again of my blind friend, and how she could 'see' beauty in personalities by touching faces.

Ann and Magga, thank you.

But Sharon has put it into perspective beautifully for us. Simply put, it's not about "us."

Sharon has a way of doing that doesn't she?

I spent this afternoon writing my part of a short story that Melissa and I are writing together in my writing Cubit. As I was writing my chapter, I kept thinking of the different perspectives I've had on past New Years Days over the years.

Had nothing to do with what I was writing, but sometimes my mind wanders even then.

I think my perspective has changed because of my age. I see things differently than I saw them when I was 30 or 50 or even 60. I can't grasp that next year I'll be 70. I don't feel much different than I felt at 30 or even 40. But I see others differently. Because of my age, I'm losing friends and family, too many and for me, too soon. I can't keep from wondering if I told them I loved them, or better yet, if I showed them that I loved them.

It sort of makes me more aware of how I treat people whose paths I cross.
Makes me more careful what I say, what I do.
Makes me want to erase all those harsh words I might have said.
Makes me wonder.

I do believe that one of our many blessings of growing older is wisdom. Not book learning wisdom but life wisdom.

All the rules that were so important at 30 are now - not so much.

My mother used to say that we should all be born with the wisdom we die with. That would be a game changer, eh?

Yes, we should grow backwards.

Talking about age and aging, I will be 66 this year, but I think of myself as somewhere between 30 and 45. When I address you an here of on Cubits I usually say "ladies", but I mean girls :hearts:, My friends who are my age here always say "girls" (stelpur).