Carol Winfield is 90 years old, resides in Burlington, Vermont, has no family or friends living nearby, taught yoga in her 70s, is an author (Yoga in the Morning, Martini at Night), has spinal stenosis, and often has insomnia. Though she can do very little physically, she can write. I have started following her blog in hopes that it will help me fight back against the encroaching wave of old age.
I do not feel magnificent today. I feel lousy. I have grown brittle, tire easily, hear poorly, no longer see that well, find little joy in eating. I, once was absorbed with good cooking and good food, see no way out of the problem. I am alone, living almost exclusively on Social Security. A comparative new comer to Burlington, there is little continuity in my life or companionship from a shared past. What few friends I had have either died or left the area. There is no family nearby. What’s more, I find Vermonters, I regret to say, do not reach out easily to a single, old woman.
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