As Ralph, I have personally lived through the two events in this short story and find this quote from Randy Pausch to be meaningful:
"If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds."
At 79, my wife, Pam, and I find this is especially true once more as we find ourselves spanning the somewhat different horizons of child care, independent living, assisted living and memory care residents in a graduated-care facility.
We may be living in a “bubble,” but, since each of us in our sheltered environment is navigating our later years with various forms of limitation, I sense a new-found freedom among our fellow travelers, perhaps for the first time, to just be who “we really are” – warts and all.
It’s what I felt in grade school – yes, sheltered and maybe limited yet having the freedom to choose when to step over red lines and grow at my own pace.
* When have you dared to cross a red line and expand your horizons?
As Ralph, I have personally lived through the two events in this short story and find this quote from Randy Pausch to be meaningful:
"If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds."
At 79, my wife, Pam, and I find this is especially true once more as we find ourselves spanning the somewhat different horizons of child care, independent living, assisted living and memory care residents in a graduated-care facility.
We may be living in a “bubble,” but, since each of us in our sheltered environment is navigating our later years with various forms of limitation, I sense a new-found freedom among our fellow travelers, perhaps for the first time, to just be who “we really are” – warts and all.
It’s what I felt in grade school – yes, sheltered and maybe limited yet having the freedom to choose when to step over red lines and grow at my own pace.
* When have you dared to cross a red line and expand your horizons?