Senior Throwdown & Shoutout to Young People

If you have followed along here, you'll likely know that I am near the top of a waiting list and in the process of qualifying for senior housing in the region. Yes, senior housing. It's the truth. I'll refer to it as Dock though it is a part of a larger whole called Living Branches (The Dock Manor portion). It is all connected to and/or on the same campus as other of their housing for seniors plus their Mennonite high school (library access) with large athletic fields, and to the general huge, beautiful campus of all the apartments and cottages laced with walking trails, woods, and quiet roadways. The community garden has already been plowed between the recent wintery blasts.

The Mennonites, in this case, are the ones who built and maintain Living Branches. There are other somewhat similar communities in the region run by Schwenckfelders. The Brethren, also, have still another. I love the outdoors of Dock and hope an apartment that eventually opens its door to me is on a par with the landscape there. If not, I am very good at fixing up living spaces and thrive on outdoors.

So, I'll keep posting my iteration into a new, and different sort of dwelling place as it moves along. When Toby and I crossed the country nearly five years ago with our pony Subaru who knew I'd take up residence in senior housing and he would live in a barn?

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A Shoutout to Young People: Why would you want to know about senior housing? Nothing like a little advanced info, and, I guess, because I wish you lots of good years to reach my age of the outer reaches of seventy-somethings and many, many more wonderful years for you besides.

While you're at it, Young People, please, your extraordinary talents, forthrightness, and willingness can straighten up the messes that are devolving so rapidly. We had a good thing going here in our "Great Experiment". It can be cherished, repaired and put on a fresh trajectory of service to all citizens; the planet. What you have and are now doing shows you are our last, best, brightest hope for making this planetary home a better place for the entire human experience and all that is living, from the rocks to the air, to the shining seas.

I salute you.