Are we really helping when we help? Or are we just enabling? Sometimes it is hard to tell. But it is an important question. We do want to help but sometimes we goes to far and interferes with someone else’s independence. Too much help can be stifling. Retired people have lots of opportunities to help or hinder.

Taking A Day Off From Yourself | Sixty And Me
There’s a line in a song I wrote recently that stayed with me longer than the music: “I know it’s my own doing… bein’ where I be… but that don’t make it easier… livin’ inside of me.” We All Live in Our Own Thoughts I didn’t write that line as


