Let's Talk
Beginning today, seventysomething will feature Let’s Talk every other Wednesday alternating with an essay on memory, aging in amazement, and the inner life. Let’s Talk will feature a new question for us to toss around. Send your thoughts, responses, whatever comes up.
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Can you recall a conversation that you’ve had with an elder that impacted your thinking or taught you something that you didn’t previously know?
A hospice patient I used to visit told me how he was fortunate growing up in the Depression because he lived on a farm and there was always food. He said some of his less fortunate classmates would beg for his apple cores at lunch time.
When making an excuse why I hadn’t visited my aunt in the nursing home my dad looked me squarely in the eye and said three words “Make the time”. It has always stuck with me when confronting myself with excuses for not doing something I very well know I could. Thanks for asking thst question.