Our Aging Selves

Tag: faith

  • Downsizing the Holidays

    Downsizing the Holidays

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    janeallisongreene
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    “It takes us three days just to decorate the outside for Christmas,” a good friend said. “Plus the tree and everything inside.” Hmm, I wondered. Then I asked, “Why do you do it?” “Well, we always have. And the grandchildren want it. But it’s getting mighty hard – dragging all that stuff out of storage,…

  • What do you fear?

    What do you fear?

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    janeallisongreene
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    Maybe we don’t talk about them much, but I bet we all have fears. Being scammed, identity theft, serious illness, the state our world. Fear flourishes better in the dark, where it likes to hide. Acronyms come to mind: False Evidence Appearing Real; Face Everything And Recover. One of my earliest fears was of the…