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This is a wonderful thread--let's keep it going! I read it all each time I sign in and it still gives me joy to read all your posts. Joy for me is living every day with my very best friend, my wonderful husband. Often we just sit (or lie) and talk and talk---you would wonder what we have to talk about at our age, but we can never seem to get enough of sharing thoughts. We have decided that our whole concept of time has changed. We used to have a very busy psychological practice where we rushed from one hour to the next, giving all we had to people in pain, sometimes not eating dinner until 9 or 10 at night. Now we are semi-retired, and we give time and energy to each other and to our large family. At first we felt guilty, not practicing our profession full-time. But since cancer and heart surgeries we have learned to take one day at a time and relish it fully. Just going for a ride is a joy because we are together. We have moved to a smaller home in a smaller city, in a senior neighborhood. We have never had such caring neighbors, and if you think a senior neighborhood would be boring, you don't know this bunch! They have at least one party a month, usually more, and they are actively involved in so many things, and so much fun to be around! Most of them are professional people who have travelled and served all over the world---I often think what a wonderful book could be written about their lives and wisdom and good humor. We are at the age where we don't worry anymore about what we want to be when we grow up---we've grown up and now we're in our second childhood and enjoying every day we are alive. Most of you are younger but your posts say you are also realizing the joy of little things and relishing every day of life. I believe we are here in this earthlife to learn the things we are learning, by whatever experiences come to us. This earthlife is the only school where we get the tests first, and then we learn the lesssons! Thank you for all that you are and share. I truly appreciate and love you. Hugs, Tricia
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