I was 83 years old and someone decided when I should sleep.
That was not living. It was to exist.
When the solution appeared where you least expected it
One day, on my way to the store, I saw my neighbor Sara. Single mother, exhausted, on the verge of tears. Without thinking about it, I offered to pick up her daughter from school.
That’s how it all began.
I picked up Emma.
Sara left me food.
Her family helped me with what I could no longer do alone.
It was not charity. It was exchange. Community.