Sunday, March 6, 2016, The sun is glorious....

Trying to be upbeat is not too hard when he sun streams into our windows..I still say our, as this is, to me, still OUR place. I have just signed a new lease for our apartment. To some of my friends they say -"well Jan you really should move on...this apartment holds too many sad memories, and there are so many people with problems in this building. Others say, look it suits you, it's beautiful, your view is great, you are near the library, a shopping center, bank, and not that far from your beloved lake.

Well both sides of the coin are true..and so when it came time to renew my lease this March, I kind of went to one side of the coin, i.e. it's time to move on. I have to get a new outlook on life, see new people, get into a new (to me) place. Then I would go to the other side, the staff, and many people here know me. I'm enjoying the close proximity to the new library, in fact I've even joined a new book group which meets in the evening once a month, right at the library next door, how convenient is that. I'm not that far from the lake where the Teapot, the yoga, zumba and so many other activies take place..why bother with the bother of moving.

So I did it, I renewed my lease, with the idea that okay, next year if I'm finding the walk down to the lake (takes me 15 minutes on good days)too much, I'll move to a residence closer to the lake.. The residence I'm thinking of really has some advantages, along with being closer to the lake, it also houses some friends that are able to play scrabble, has better food service and a small pool..so it is there for me, so now it's think about it for next year...
Well for the friends in this building, Alice, my almost blind and very old friend, who remembers my dear Mac. She is the one who says I don't let them clean the mark on the wall there, as that's where Mac's chair used o scrape..she always says "that's Mac's mark". The preposees who still hug me, the wonderful woman who was the first woman priest of the Anglican church, who still at the age of 91, plays piano, makes her own dresses, writes papers for seminars at McGill and so on and on..and my newer friend Lina partially blind, who tells me stories, and with whom I commiserate as we wonder how things will be when her family place her husband in a facility away from her. Also my neighbours on this floor who are with it but ailing in various ways..these friends are all quite happy I'm staying on...so that's it
Now, it's a Sunny Sunday, and time to get ready for church, where I will sit in the pew where Mac and I both sat..I will pass his ashes that are outside in the churchyard under his bench..and I will get on with the day, my life and Thank God, The sun is Glorious...solong...