10 Brilliant Things I enjoy after being 75 in Brilliant Things I Enjoy After My 75th Birthday

That Rwandan coffee exists and is imported
That people may now identify with gender variation choices, compared to the two gender options of old
Remembering that when I was 14 I wrote a story, a class assignment, about an old man who lived in an apartment in NYC. He often went to his window where a geranium was blooming and those moments I wrote were his world. I was correct back then…for me, down the road, that geranium in bloom could be a world.
Trying on all the dresses I own in front of a mirror, after being invited to a semi-formal party
Having longer hair than I have had in twenty years
Having more and more really white hair
Sitting on a beach in The Dominican Republic to see an adored granddaughter marry the man she loves.
A waiter’s response when I asked if he could make me a whisky sour: “Ah! Grandma! Yes!”
Air conditioning in Fl when the temperatures feel like those over 100.
Carrying my late husband’s essence in my heart, an unexpected experience that confirms and enables my happiness