June 16, 2025

We have to make our peace with our life from start to finish.
And "beyond a certain age" life holds all of the cards.
My wife and I are making the requisite concessions
and maintaining our spirits and sense of humor,
while awaiting The Event (The fall, the stroke,
the diagnosis, etc., that announces Assisted Living
to one degree or another. But we realize the inevitabilities
our place in life invites, suggests, implies, and face
the future with that in mind.

Death presents no problems for me, I look forward to the experience in anticipation of what's there. It is getting there that is the problem! Being able to count on physician-assisted suicide would be such a relief. 

Absent that, I take solace in emptiness, stillness, silence,
and find there the solace and consolation--the reassurance
that I have all the help anyone in my place could hope to  have. With the foundation in place, I ease into tomorrow without expectation, anxiety, opinion, fear, uncertainty, confident that I will do what I am able to do about what is called for, knowing no one can do more than that.

I am also comforted with my "Inner Companions," my original nature, innate virtues, inherent imagination and intrinsic intuition. The time spent developing my communion with these "inner others," has proved to be of value beyond all imagining, and enables a sense of humor shared around the invisible circle throughout each day.