January 2024 – JAYSPEAK

Hello February / Goodbye January

I am soooo glad to see January go! It is hard to get a new year started when everything is changing, and I am getting settled into my apartment after 5 months in a hospital! Finally!!!! But I am snuggled in and happy to back. And most of my friends are on the internet IContinue reading “Hello February / Goodbye January”

You start dying slowly ; if you do not travel,if you do not read,If you do not listen to the sounds of life,If you do not appreciate yourself. You start dying slowly :When you kill your self-esteem,When you do not let others help you. You start dying slowly ;If you become a slave of yourContinue reading

Sharing the words by another author

I asked a friend who has crossed 70 & is heading towards 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself? He sent me the following: I decided to share this for all my friends. Why do we have to wait to be 60 or 70 or 80, why can’t we practice this atContinue reading “Sharing the words by another author”

Stop Gaps continues…..

I have been in Paris for 4 years and it has never been easy. A pandemic and 5 months in the hospital. I have just begun to think about how I think and feel! What is next?! I don’t know. Maybe I should get another apartment. I don’t have somewhere in mind yet.but I willContinue reading “Stop Gaps continues…..”

Growing old…….

AGING…. You grow old, they told me, you are no longer you, you become distant, sad and lonely. I didn’t answer… I don’t get old, I get wise. I stopped being what others like me to become, but what I like to be. I stopped seeking the acceptance of others and accepted myself. I haveContinue reading “Growing old…….”