When morning slips in with its bright little light,
Don’t drag yesterday’s worries out of the night.
Say, “Here is a day I have never yet known.
I’ll see what can blossom from seeds I have sown.”
The past may come knocking with, “Why did you choose
That word or that path? Think of all you could lose!”

As I sit down to write this blog post, I search frantically in my notebook (that comes everywhere with me) for the page where I wrote the lessons. And that’s where it starts. I write it, know I have it somewhere, and promptly forget it. And there are a lot of places to forget about it. The notes on my phone, the Post-it Notes I reach for when nothing else is around…

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I had the best intentions. In 2022, I was writing articles for Sixty and Me and enjoying interactions with new people I’d met through this platform. I was just finding my stride when my husband had a medical emergency. He needed brain surgery as soon as possible. We’d been married more than 40 years at the time, and I went into automatic mode…