Ten Brillant Things I Experienced After I was 75 in Brilliant Things I Enjoy After My 75th Birthday

1. Speaking to a new friend and finding she has common interests with me
2. Light streaming down from the skylight
3. Savoring the last of the first buds of a new hibiscus shrub
4. Awakening whenever I awake. No alarm.
5. Having a different kind of coffee each morning.
6. My adult children sharing incidences with me.
7. Seeing the beautiful old rose bushes at our senior center
8. Meeting a woman whose life has been more thrilling and more tragic than the life of any other normally mortal person I have ever known.
9. Being part of my great grandchildren’s entry into life
10. Holding a baby and realizing that I am the oldest girl in this family and she is the youngest.

Last updated July 27, 2017