My Life in 30 Years?

See that bit of electronics just above? My husband bought one of these a couple years ago. It is an Alexa Dot. He uses it to control a lamp in our living room mostly. Real useful right? I have checked out skills to see if it could add anything to my quality of life and kept coming up with nothing much that I thought was very great. So there Alexa sat day in and day out right by the TV waiting to hear "Alexa, lamp on." or "Alexa, lamp off." Sometimes when the kids visited Alexa played music for us or told us a joke. Occasionally I asked he for the weather forecast. Not so exciting and all things we could do in other ways. Just another gadget for Jim taking up space and needing to be dusted. 

Finally I found something in her skill set that I think could be a cool thing for me. Did you know, especially if you are a fellow blogger, that Alexa has a writing prompt skill? Well now you do! Like most little blog writers like me we think our regular days are not worth writing about most of the time. I have no audience for the niche that I am an expert of since I don't consider myself and expert of anything, at least not anything useful but I want to and like the idea of having a blog and writing more often. I hope the writing prompt skill on Alexa can help with my goal of posting more frequently. 

So I asked her, "Alexa, open writing prompt." She did and she said, and I am paraphrasing here, "How do you see your life in 30 years?"

So below the picture I'll tell you.

Photo by Nathan Bang on Unsplash (I added the text)

30 years? Hell yes, take me there! I would be 95 years old. This is not such a crazy idea because I have some long lived relatives that were in their nineties and some even over 100 on my father's side of the family. I have said to my kids that I would like to at least be around long enough for a 90th birthday so 5 more years, why not?

Living a long life and living it well is why I walk daily, try to eat well, quit smoking more than 10 years ago and keep my brain active by reading, needlework, and learning new things. My greatest wish it that my hands and eyes don't fail me so I can keep learning and creating. 

I even have a couple new role models for life in my 90's! Both of these folks are quilters, so they are both still living a creative life. I have quilted before and want to again along with knitting and crocheting in the life I envision for myself. You can read about my heroes if you want some inspiration today. The first I found on the blog Happy Cottage Quilter. Nina Borroz was featured in this article telling of her hobby of quilting for Veterans. Theron Jennings at 98 was featured in an article from 2018. He learned to sew 4 years before the article and uses that skill to make quilts for kids all around the world.

Reading about these two people confirmed my belief that a useful and creative life is possible well into old age. That is the life I see for myself in 30 years. What about you?

Back with more again soon. Take care and stay cozy!

 

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Worry

Two weeks ago I was at my Mother's house for a week long visit. I left saddened and a bit worried. I was saddened by the anger she showed when watching the news. Understand that Fox is her favorite news station and for me that cable channel could disappear and I would be filled with joy. She would change to other news channels and spend time yelling at the television.

She and I are so very far apart in our views on politics and life in general. She actually said that nice people are weaklings who never win anything. She also believes that my attempts to find something good about everyone I meet is naive and silly. Not responding to her disdain, taunts and criticism is so hard but would be futile so I do my best. I would love to be able to enjoy being with her but that is a very rare thing when we are together.

My worry is about her confused memories. I have a couple things that happened in my life, what they are does not matter. What does matter is that when they happened she was not with me. She is now telling my stories as if she was there and a part of these events when they occurred. She has internalized my moments as her own and who knows how much else in her mind is false and taken from others.

It was another short night. I talked a bit about that yesterday. I'll need a nap today I am sure. Besides that I will be retweeting those who have shown me some attention on Twitter. I also hope to get some pictures taken for new listings. If I manage that I should be blogging about those new listings tomorrow. We'll see.

Back with more again soon. Take care and stay cozy!

Live and Learn

Waking up with an achy back this morning was not fun at all. It probably came from too much time sitting in the car on our trip and some of the house cleaning I did yesterday. (I still need to get pictures off the camera from that. When I do I will share them here.)

When I was younger and chasing toddlers these aches and pains didn't happen. Now that I am in the age range for the silver version of vitamins I have figured out that the right balance of movement and rest is so much more important to my well being.

It is sometimes said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks but I have found that life is continual learning. If you agree share something in a comment that you have learned. I love the stories and comments my readers share.