tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post2347676573900273473..comments2024-03-27T13:32:06.780-02:30Comments on The Other Side of Eighty: Gains and LossesWisewebwomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-76105313444543096912019-06-02T16:01:21.327-02:302019-06-02T16:01:21.327-02:30You poor bitter thing!…What could we say to easy y...You poor bitter thing!…What could we say to easy your fear that as you get old there will not be enough money out of the economy to even provide a nursing home for you?<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-68679938709469626572019-05-27T16:03:18.415-02:302019-05-27T16:03:18.415-02:30Yes, the long chain of birthing women, an indescri...Yes, the long chain of birthing women, an indescribable feeling, River.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-69155817527009350452019-05-27T16:01:28.739-02:302019-05-27T16:01:28.739-02:30We can never know the burdens and internal anguish...We can never know the burdens and internal anguish some people carry which prevents them living a full life.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-3043212705321328112019-05-27T16:00:12.833-02:302019-05-27T16:00:12.833-02:30Thank you Terra, it is quite the undertaking, I am...Thank you Terra, it is quite the undertaking, I am over 1/2 way there now, it's approx a 36 hour project but will be very useful on those summer and fall nights.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-69705037997680949442019-05-27T15:59:17.829-02:302019-05-27T15:59:17.829-02:30Oh you have a very sharp mind T and I think inquis...Oh you have a very sharp mind T and I think inquisitiveness, in the best sense, is really helpful. I know I have endless curiosity about this world as do you. Keeps us fired up and thinking.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-40658320960250787832019-05-27T15:57:21.403-02:302019-05-27T15:57:21.403-02:30I asked Anne in return was that 3 pairs or 3 glove...I asked Anne in return was that 3 pairs or 3 gloves, extraordinary. So yes our lady in the pic could have been knitting for money as she gather the turf to heat the fire that would cook dinner for her family.<br />Thanks Anne!<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-62650306434462500442019-05-27T15:56:01.381-02:302019-05-27T15:56:01.381-02:30A wonderful comment from Anne Brew. Blogger doesn&...A wonderful comment from Anne Brew. Blogger doesn't like her and keeps tossing her off, much to my chagrin, so she emailed me this wonderful story about the woman above:<br /><br />I can’t comment on your page for love nor money at the moment I don’t know why. Comments just won’t play ball. Never mind. <br />That lady in your photograph struck home; the weight of the turf, the cold wet mud on her feet.<br />I think she’s knitting for money. In Donegal in the 50s the lady who rented out her Big House to us and removed herself and her family to the cottage would always have knitting on the go. She’d tuck a needle under one arm and cook, clean, tend to the huge rosy cheeked baby in the pram and the two old parents, one either side of the fire.<br />She knitted Riding Gloves ( I ask you ) made of that orange yellow string. Each one finished was laid carefully into a flat box between tissue paper and every so often they would be collected by a man in a van and taken up to a department store in Dublin or Galway. <br />She would knit THREE A DAY. Wisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-16172024750117194762019-05-26T16:06:59.526-02:302019-05-26T16:06:59.526-02:30I am about your age and my lists of loss and gain ...I am about your age and my lists of loss and gain has many commonalities with yours. That is a lovely wrap you are making, I like the colors. Terra https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396481049075747940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-38535639812864845182019-05-26T13:03:06.812-02:302019-05-26T13:03:06.812-02:30I enjoyed reading your words, WWW, and the comment...I enjoyed reading your words, WWW, and the comments above. I shall desist from listing my own gains and losses right now though, other than saying that my greatest gain has been to reach 80 years of age, and still be fairly sound of mind, if not entirely sound of body. I'm trying to train myself to live just one day at a time now, concentrating on the present day, present moment. Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-33889841517076017862019-05-26T11:22:38.592-02:302019-05-26T11:22:38.592-02:30I wish that I could answer your question here. It...I wish that I could answer your question here. It will have to wait for a complete blog post like you have done here. Briefly however, I have lost my innocence and gained a lot of experience and weight of course!Ramana Rajgopaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07595611334904650281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-19988178420149028432019-05-26T05:35:21.216-02:302019-05-26T05:35:21.216-02:30Gosh, I had no idea you were 75. SEVENTY FIVE? You...Gosh, I had no idea you were 75. SEVENTY FIVE? You could be my father's slightly younger sister. Not that he had any siblings.<br /><br />Lost? Gained? Oddly, only yesterday in some sort of time delayed protracted insight, I came to conclusion, and I am so happy about it in a wistful type of way, that virtually every loss I had the misfortune to encounter now crystallizes as "gain". <br /><br />What took me so long? I suppose one might liken (metaphorically) my sudden insights to removal of my, early for my age, cataracts. Where once there was fog now there is clarity.<br /><br />As always, even when you and I don't see eye to eye (!) on some issues, wishing you well, saluting you in soldering on like I wish my mother would (could have done, still could but doesn't),<br />UUrsulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-77666385499872388112019-05-26T02:49:40.136-02:302019-05-26T02:49:40.136-02:30I remember that feeling! I was right there in the ...I remember that feeling! I was right there in the room when my daughter had her daughter and the feeling was like an unbroken link between us.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-75672981277357659752019-05-25T23:44:35.189-02:302019-05-25T23:44:35.189-02:30Yes, we are the war babies, I remember the rationi...Yes, we are the war babies, I remember the rationing and the ration books, Joanne.<br /><br />XO<br />WWW<br />Wisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-58107200197403505942019-05-25T20:24:43.368-02:302019-05-25T20:24:43.368-02:30We match fairly evenly on losses and gains. Perha...We match fairly evenly on losses and gains. Perhaps it has something to do with being a "boomer", though I believe neither of us is, as we are "war babies", not post war babies.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-24939858163573107552019-05-25T20:20:33.109-02:302019-05-25T20:20:33.109-02:30Yes, a troll, who put the same message on my site ...Yes, a troll, who put the same message on my site recently.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-38916414822394615482019-05-25T17:17:32.675-02:302019-05-25T17:17:32.675-02:30I celebrate all you can do Ernestine of which ther...I celebrate all you can do Ernestine of which there is so much, your photos and writing and the cooking you can accomplish. And you loving family visiting you.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-68909268045226992852019-05-25T17:16:18.488-02:302019-05-25T17:16:18.488-02:30How true that is Gigi, looking at the lemons and d...How true that is Gigi, looking at the lemons and dreaming of lemonade!<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-9898747740842154622019-05-25T16:31:05.411-02:302019-05-25T16:31:05.411-02:30My blessings so many. Not until almost 80 did I s...My blessings so many. Not until almost 80 did I slow down and have<br />a lot of issues, but seems I came through them. Now working on continued healing of heart attack 3 months ago, slowed me down.<br />but my love of writing, using camera, reading and more continues.<br />I truly miss cooking big meals and baking.One Woman's Journey - a journal being written from Woodhaven - her cottage in the woods.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12548226150115102345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-85588189220132940972019-05-25T16:12:05.044-02:302019-05-25T16:12:05.044-02:30Happy too that your vision has not deteriorated. A...Happy too that your vision has not deteriorated. Agree that losing sight would be almost impossible to take.<br />XO, ReginaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-20492556837068194402019-05-25T14:50:40.001-02:302019-05-25T14:50:40.001-02:30You and I count our blessings and always say, &quo...You and I count our blessings and always say, "Not bad. I am doing better than expected."gigihawaiihttp://gigihawaii.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-43457038277042425872019-05-25T13:47:41.357-02:302019-05-25T13:47:41.357-02:30I feel so incredibly fortunate Tom, and it has all...I feel so incredibly fortunate Tom, and it has all been massive co-incidence and serendipity that sees us all on the same island in the Atlantic within range of each other. Common interests link us closer too. <br /><br />I don't take any of this for granted.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-35539669695964487212019-05-25T13:45:37.580-02:302019-05-25T13:45:37.580-02:30I am so sorry to read about your dealing with a si...I am so sorry to read about your dealing with a sick husband, Regina, it must be such a strain with your own ill-health to contend with and to be housebound. <br /><br />I find also that reading is one of my most precious go-tos and I was so thrilled the other day when I was told my sight hadn't deteriorated in 9 years. Losing my sight was one of my biggest fears.<br /><br />Yes, I often think about times travelling too :) Igniting old memories for a while.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-66048715641731145262019-05-25T13:41:44.078-02:302019-05-25T13:41:44.078-02:30So sorry about all your losses Elle but I like how...So sorry about all your losses Elle but I like how you have managed your life in the past few years and having no debt at such a young age. Daughter is the same as you and I am thrilled about that. I have a small debt from the house (long story) but other than that I do sleep at night a lot better than I did even 3 years ago, I was so worried.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-88884352934256305302019-05-25T13:39:10.305-02:302019-05-25T13:39:10.305-02:30I don't miss the jobs, which surprises me, the...I don't miss the jobs, which surprises me, they were a means to an end, supporting me and my kids. One of the bonuses was making life long friends through some of then, kindred spirits in a sea of corporate greed.<br /><br />I feel more "Me" like I said than I ever have. <br /><br />And the luxury of time is bliss.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-53911952079389970472019-05-25T13:36:46.881-02:302019-05-25T13:36:46.881-02:30Elle, I believe a troll tho the filter is not catc...Elle, I believe a troll tho the filter is not catching it. Very sick individual with all that rage and pouring it on to stranger's blogs.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.com