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Hi Barb, I am lucky enough to be in my own house and I read your comment about “senior living arrangement” I feel for you. I wonder if you can just concentrate on your writing as your main focus and ignore your surroundings in order to create…My living arrangement has some neg. Aspects but I focus on my painting/writing and ignore them so I am able to get work done…If you are mobile try walking around the neighbourhood to enjoy other gardens or visit greenhouses. That might help…you may meet like minded souls. And reading what you enjoy…Keeping in touch with like minded souls via phone, facetime or post is also very encouraging. Wishing you succes. Walk in peace.
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Thank you all so very much for your responses. I'd love to get to know you all! You sound like my kind of people! I am going to pull out the writing I did while going through the journey of divorce, turn it into a book of some sort - as I feel led - and just see what happens. Before I moved down here I was taking lessons to learn the Celtic Harp. I had one made (back in the day when I had $) in Lancaster, Pa by a Mennonite family ... it's beautiful. I have not found a harp teacher down here, but discovered that there are sites on-line which give lessons, all the way from the very earliest to the more difficult. Harp music is soothing to me. Now I'm just praying for a church which is really my big area of finding friends. I am Western Orthodox (not Eastern) and left a wonderful life-giving church in MD and there is none down here within driving distance. The closest is 1-1/2 hrs. away. It's a dilemma for sure. I did get out my booklet on hikes along the Appalachian Trail - everything from easy treks to long ones. When I was married we did a lot of hiking and although I can't do the tough ones anymore because of a knee replacement, I would love to hit some of the shorter, easier ones. Gotta' remember bear spray though! There's a lot of critters up there. Thanks for the input ... you've got me thinking in a different direction. It's a bit tough here .... this is a Section 8 apartment bldg. and most of the people are pretty sour and gossip like Jr. Hi. girls. But, that's not me, so I'm going to go off on my own. I also have done some of the things that the Management should have done a long time ago ..... our second and third floors are cockroach ridden. Of course, everyone gripes but does nothing. Well, I called the Dept. of Health and believe me .... they've already been here 3 times to spray. So, believe it or not, that also puts me on the "don't talk to her" list. Oi Vey!
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Such helpful suggestions for Barb, @amberpep ! I also like going to garden stores to just enjoy all the flowers.
Thank you @fromthehill