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: After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself. I have realized that I am not “Atlas”. TheContinue 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…….”