When friends asked me Can we help? I'd say Not unless you can alter time speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage in a strange way.
