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My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .
The GOAT !!
Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .
๐ฃ๏ธ ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐จ๐ก๐ง๐๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ๐ง๐จ๐ก๐๐ง๐ฌ Waltham Senior Center needs drivers to deliver Meals to Homebound Seniors ๐ผ๐ป๐นy ๐ฎ ๐ญ-๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ week. between 10:30-12:00pm. same route each week -info call Deb Vautour at the Senior Center at 781-314-3300
Mike Yastrzemski, grandson of the great Carl Yastrzemski greets a 102 year old WW2 war veteran who after telling Mike how much he loved Carl, threw out the first pitch.
Best thing youโll see today
Waltham Senior Housing Food Drive 12/6-2:30-4:30pm 12/7- 9-11am Drop Off 292 Grove St. Community Room Ann Callahan -WHA (781)894-3357 ext.268 [email protected]
Heat wave- Senior Citizens- Please check in on your older neighbors - visit -be sure their place is cool enough for them and they are hydrating- especially those living alone- thank you-
Waltham Housing FOOD/CARD DRIVE FOR SENIORS/DISABLED ADULTSย
Fri-5/17 2:30-430pm & Sat 5/18 9:00-12Noon-Please consider-donations drop off 292 Grove St. WHA has 11 bldgs.-4 pantries. Pine Prospect,Grove, & Dale https://t.co/sTTTA4B5DX AnnCallahan,.WHA-781-894-3357 ext. 268.
Friends -please check in on your senior citizen neighbors during this cold weekend- a friendly knock on the door to say hello or a phone call -friends helping friends-
Outstanding story on Bentley's retired Hall of Fame women's basketball coach Barbara Stevens from the NCAA's Celebration of Title IX series.
https://t.co/7u2deYzjEX
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WALTHAM SENIOR HOUSING FOOD DRIVE
FRIDAY DECEMBER 9 @ 3:00 - 6:00 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 @ 9:00 - NOON
DROP OFF 292 GROVE ST
COMMUNITY ROOM
WHA needs your help. They house 250 seniors/disabled adults.- at the Grove Street Community Room
WALTHAM SENIOR HOUSING FOOD DRIVE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 @ 3:00 - 6:00 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 @ 9:00 - NOON
DROP OFF AT 282 GROVE STREET COMMUNITY ROOM items needed:grocery store gift cards Items must be individual sizes and shelf stable. Thank you for your consideration.
Friends-Another important reminder During this Heat Wave Please Check in by visiting or calling senior citizens-Staying cool
And hydrated is critical and itโs so easy to get dehydrated in this heat. Water- And Cool Air- circulation.