Where do you live in Canada? Is it hard to live in the country without a car? I would imagine it would be challenging to get things like groceries. Oh and hey don't deprive yourself of your "stuff" too much--enjoy it while you can. You might as well get as much use out of your things as possible. Actual junk is another story, but things like furniture make a house feel more like a home, IMO.
--- In [email protected], "gina_ellis_ca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Ellen" <ellengoodman6@> > wrote: > > > > Here is 1 ad in the Boston Globe I make a point of reading, even > > though I hardly ever go to the store (can't really get there without a > > car) > > > > http://www.building19.com/WEEKSAD.htm > > > > BTW you are far more computer literate than most 70+ year olds I know > > including my parents. Jeez you're even using acronyms I've never > > heard of! > > Hey, I'd go to the store too...but can't really get there without a > plane. > > Maybe not your parents, but the biggest growing demographic of people > diving into the internet (I read somewhere) is my contemporaries. Hey, > the kids never call and it's hard to get out any more. (Neither true > in my case, but the time's a-comin'.) My daughter (who does call a lot) > (cuz she lives next door and we live in the country and she doesn't > drive) got into the internet a lot the last few years, when she was > pretty much invalided by a back problem, and found not so much old > people but lots of people like her who are pretty housebound. Great > invention for them. > > And I'm reminded that in my work (some of it paid! the federal prison > part) as a chaplain (alternative religion - neo-Pagan) I recently came > across somebody in a Retirement Home who's 80, who's just getting into > Wicca, taking music lessons, learning Spanish, and who does wonderful > paintings by computer (I have no clue as to how one does that).... and > all this after having recovered from a stroke. (It would be > inspirational, if it weren't daunting...) >
