re: #218 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Well, that is a Chinese curse … /s

I hope things can improve for your mother’s melancholy. I don’t know her, but I would suggest she might be more resilient than you think (she got this far). It might be worthwhile to suggest that resilience to her.

Anecdotally, one of my great-grandmothers was born in 1896. Her daughter was born in 1913. They went through everything from a Depression to two world wars, from rural electrification, the invention of automobiles and radio, to watching men land on the moon. My great-grandmother died in 1993 and my grandmother in 2005.

My dad and mom were born in 1914 and 1918 respectively…so they survived the Spanish Flue epidemic as children…