So sorry about possible duplicates.
My April newsletter either did not get sent to you, or you have received it more than once.
Things are getting more difficult for me now, particularly any digital-related challenge. For instance, I also got a new phone number and without thinking it through, I did a factory reset on the phone I was using (more on that below) which means that everybody (banks, credit cards, gmail, yahoo) had no way to text me those verification codes to let me into my accounts because all they had in my profiles was the old number!
Be sure never to do that. I actually had to talk to a real person at the bank.
So why do I do this?
It is so much of who I am, to be creating something every day that I am miserable if not involved in a project. I have so much still to say, and even have returned to painting. Incidentally, I find that my new paintings are turning out to be the best I’ve ever done.
As soon as these 2024 paintings are photographed, I will post them at Fine Art America, like my earlier ones. Some will be made available for download and printing. But I digress.
So what’s the point of all this?
In an attempt to make things less expensive, my daughter and I fell for the hype about phones for the elderly and I signed up for the Lively app and the Jitterbug 4.
I am now selling it to someone who might need it.
It turned out to be inadequate for everything I do all day, so I went back to a “normal” smartphone and thought changing my number would be helpful. It could give me a brief break from constant robocalls. But because my brain is apparently not firing on all cylinders anymore, I did the factory reset on the Jitterbug without thinking it through, making the problem referred to above with banks, etc.
Let me share with you the other thing no one tells you about old age: it is folly to automatically assume nothing changes. It is impossible to adequately prepare for how aging will affect any particular individual. Some skills, some abilities will be retained a very long time. And some activities that have long been subconsciously performed may be the very ones that vanish from your mental library.
The best advice anyone can definitely make use of is the one we have all heard.
Live one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time. There is always now.
And if you screw something up, or have to do something over and over to get it right, that was just another consequence and another lesson learned for today.
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