80 in August~ Retired Wood Carver/Worker~US Army Vet 1966~69
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The Post is of "Sahalie Falls"~ I used to camp at the top about 50ft in and to the left~~The Three Sisters Wilderness~Oregon~~๐ ๐ฆโโฌ
New York in the early 1900s hit you like a living machine. Steamships dumped hopeful immigrants onto Ellis Island as steel skeletons clawed the sky. Elevated trains roared overhead while horses still clattered through streets jammed with pushcarts, shouting newsboys, and a dozen languages.
Uptown mansions glittered; downtown tenements overflowed with laundry and lives. Broadway lights, coal smoke, and raw ambition collided in one unstoppable roar.
I wonder if anyone within this amazing compilation of restored pictures thought people would be looking at them over a century later.
A woman invested one hundred fifty thousand dollars from her personal retirement funds so that senior women would have access to reasonably priced housing and avoid spending their later years in solitude.
In the town of Cumby, Texas, seventy-year-old Robyn Yerian withdrew resources from her 401(k) account to establish The Birdโs Nest, a collection of compact residences designed expressly for older women who wanted both low-cost living arrangements and the company of others.
Across a five-acre property, Robyn arranged for essential services and prepared fourteen plots suitable for tiny homes. At present, eleven women ranging in age from sixty to eighty reside there, each contributing roughly four hundred fifty dollars monthly.
The residents discovered benefits that extended well beyond modest rental costs.
They prepare and enjoy meals together, assist with daily tasks, monitor one anotherโs health during periods of sickness, and gather beneath a shared outdoor structure. The setting has evolved into an environment in which advancing age need not equate to social isolation.
Interest in the community has been substantial. Robyn is said to have obtained over five hundred inquiries for the limited fourteen available positions.
She might have devoted her entire retirement nest egg exclusively to her own needs. Instead, she directed a portion of those savings toward creating an asset that many seniors value as highly as shelter itself: a neighborhood in which no individual is required to grow old in isolation.