Jeannie: So, I'm having a grumpy day and posted a small tirade on agism , etc. Bloody (British slang) scary (potential illness), are just intros to how I'm feeling today. Usually I'm more optimistic. Ya see, I live in New York City and no longer (the Virus) can go to the ballet, museums, theater, movies or eat at a fine restaurant (yes I'm spoiled); see wonderful shops; go to the Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station for crab cakes on Wednesday nights; etc. etc. I've lost too many friends - many younger than me - so I get lonely. I have no family remaining since I lost my darling baby sister 4 yrs. ago; just a couple of good
friends remain and I'm thankful for them. I'm glad you find these years "golden" - perhaps I'm too cynical but I miss having my busy , exciting, traveling business years as an attractive, lively woman of the world. Oh, one positive I can share: The Frick Museum , which is my favorite NYC museum, has a marvelous program every Wednesday and Friday at 5pm here, where a curator reviews a work of art (it's on Youtube) so brilliantly that a friend and I usually discuss it after the viewing. I am a member of the museum, so it comes to me free. Perhaps you can google Frick Museum "cocktails with a curator" - that's Friday nights and see it - if you like art. Yes, I'm independent , questionably adjusted, not always happy older lady fed up with the ugliness I see around me, and adjusting in my own way, my own style which is feisty to say the least. Adieu.