What counts at age 86

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MR says: This LDS woman reflects on life in her old age and what's really important now that she's done and seen it all. I absolutely love it.

The older I get the more I realize that what really matters at any age is relationships. I like to think of them as being horizontally to the human and vertically to the divine. At the same time, in either relationship it is easy to let what seems more important get in the way of keeping connected. Like just plain aging.

At 86, personal ablutions take more and more time. I used to say. “I’ll hop in the shower.” Loved it. Now a shower takes balance I don’t have and bending I’m very bad at. Dressing up with support hose is a chore. I’ve abandoned mascara since I can’t see well enough to hit an eyelash.

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