For bright colored mirrors, I got the Riki skinny mirror and the suction cup so put that on my bathroom to look directly into good light. The magnifying mirror is great too.
You explained perfectly how strange aging is because our exterior doesn't match our image of ourselves. I said this to my father recently. He said he was at a school thing for my nephew (his grandson) and the teacher called on "the gray haired man in the front row." My dad said he just sat there until my step mother leaned over and said, she's talking about you. He just forgot he had turned gray! I want to get lightbulbs like yours so I can live in denial at home. Great idea to not even look in bad overhead lighting. I ruined my day recently by looking too long in a public bathroom.
My brother lived the final year of his life in denial, and his kids all wanted him to talk about his disease and come to terms with it, but no, he didn't, and worked until two weeks before he actually died, with his two sons standing beside, one on each side, holding him up while he spoke to the Town Board. Before he did die they sent me in to talk to him about meaningful things, which he had never talked about to anyone, and while I told him I cared for him and everybody else did too, he would only say, I know. I thought, well, denial worked for him, and why not? He knew he was dying, but why talk about it? A certain kind of courage, which has many kinds.
Wonderful as always, Val. Here is a question about sun screeen. After years of nagging my husband about wearing a hat in the sun, I've realized my hair is now so thin that I,too, should be doing for my head what I do on my face. But I hate wearing hats when it's not cold. Any suggestions for sunscreen on heads of thin hair that won't be so greasy that I'll need to wash my hair every day? Ordinarily I only wash it once a week or so.
For bright colored mirrors, I got the Riki skinny mirror and the suction cup so put that on my bathroom to look directly into good light. The magnifying mirror is great too.
You explained perfectly how strange aging is because our exterior doesn't match our image of ourselves. I said this to my father recently. He said he was at a school thing for my nephew (his grandson) and the teacher called on "the gray haired man in the front row." My dad said he just sat there until my step mother leaned over and said, she's talking about you. He just forgot he had turned gray! I want to get lightbulbs like yours so I can live in denial at home. Great idea to not even look in bad overhead lighting. I ruined my day recently by looking too long in a public bathroom.
My brother lived the final year of his life in denial, and his kids all wanted him to talk about his disease and come to terms with it, but no, he didn't, and worked until two weeks before he actually died, with his two sons standing beside, one on each side, holding him up while he spoke to the Town Board. Before he did die they sent me in to talk to him about meaningful things, which he had never talked about to anyone, and while I told him I cared for him and everybody else did too, he would only say, I know. I thought, well, denial worked for him, and why not? He knew he was dying, but why talk about it? A certain kind of courage, which has many kinds.
Wonderful as always, Val. Here is a question about sun screeen. After years of nagging my husband about wearing a hat in the sun, I've realized my hair is now so thin that I,too, should be doing for my head what I do on my face. But I hate wearing hats when it's not cold. Any suggestions for sunscreen on heads of thin hair that won't be so greasy that I'll need to wash my hair every day? Ordinarily I only wash it once a week or so.