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Gen Xers Walking into Nursing Homes

Life, as of late, has been the spiral of mid-life, the realization that nothing is stationary, the same, or the safety your walls are not what they once were.  Apparently the establishment, of baby boomer editors (as they tell me), would like to avoid this issue.  Well, read on.  Look yourself in the mirror afterward too. Notes: VA means Veterans Administration.  The hospital has been changed to a generic filler.  There are a number of things we learn in adulthood that we were never taught as children, no matter the socio-economic class we matured in.   Yet, there are some things that have become a growing cultural concern, ones that are creeping into our lives as baby boomers age, mid-life arises, and we must face a growing population of aging and growing older.   We are now facing an elderly population that surpasses previous generations as heart palpitations, diabetes, and other ailments of aging bodies are now maintainable—some curable—with a...

Uncle Harry and Sunsets

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I'm late in posting, as well . . . I've got a handful of things to blather about.  Like the ending of summer, which turned (as usual) into an Indian Summer, the settling of fall, my beignot skirt that I've only worn once on account of that Indian Summer, another pencil, the new jeans I made, and other items.  Yet, work and life played games with me this past week, and then yesterday there was a passing.  Uncle Harry, technically a cousin, passed expectantly.  Yet, a passing is still a passing.  Grief and loss still creep up and embrace you like an unwanted in a snow storm who drinks your last beer and hogs the fire warmth.  In a day or so I'll release the post I had ready.  Right now . . . it just doesn't seem fitting.   So instead of talking about how layers of fabric hide the curves of my ass that shouldn't be there, I'm wrapped in a series of emotions.  Many of those emotions I am not entirely comfortable with them lurking around.  ...