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Where’s the List Friday Round-Up
I never took up fishing. I decided a couple of years ago that having a good cane pole and some nice new bobbers would really spruce up my life. I remembered my very short and very wide grandma in her house dress and a giant wide-brimmed straw hat kerplunking into her rowboat with her cane pole and a coffee can full of worms. It was a great memory but apparently not very inspirational.
An estate planning guide I looked at asked the question: who should be told of your death? This gave me pause since publishing an obit in the newspaper would only reach my ancient age peers who still read the paper and posting on Facebook would only get to whomever that day’s algorithm blesses. It’s weird finding out somebody you thought you knew and considered a friend died last year without telling you but I guess there’s no way around it.
Every morning I wake up to see the cat sitting on the radiator watching the sun rise. It is a best thing, not the best thing, but right up there.
My head is pretty healed but my ear is numb. Sound in the new implant is calming down and I often hear things with both ears at once and get surprised. Oh! I heard that! I still say “What?” very often, muscle memory, I think. But that will go away, everything is happening like they said it would. Bit by bit.
This is, despite the forecasts of sure doom, the best time of my life. As my long time friend said when we were talking about our rapidly advancing age, “You know, this doesn’t end well.” I suppose. But there is an enormous amount of freedom and power in being an old lady that nobody ever told me about. I wouldn’t have believed them anyway.
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Good news on the hearing front Jan!
I am a few years behind you on the aging journey but already fall into the same mindset as you on the freedom and power that comes with aging. No whining here, just gratitude for now.