When I'm cleaning for my clients

I see Martha's little things in the kitchen window & Dan's tools and the gas grill, the patio table & chairs, Dan's office full of papers and pens, etc, and now neither of them can do anything at all.
Things have rusted and broken down and it's just so sad.

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JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

Yeah. I remember going into my grandfather's woodshop after he died and finding cobwebs.

And cigarette butts, used pencils, sawdust, and fingernail clippings.

He made a mirror on a stand for me long ago. I still have it and use it. So he lives on! And every time I look at myself I see a bit of him! Literally.

Adrift · 61-69, F

My dads house was like that.
Frozen in time and covered in grime because he wouldn't let us clean or throw anything away.

PepsiColaP

Life is so fragile

Tumbleweed · F

@PepsiColaP It truly is

Degbeme · 70-79, M

Time and age can be so cruel.

Tumbleweed · F

@Degbeme It breaks my heart. Dan is asleep right now & Martha is still in rehab so I'm just quietly looking around and imagining how they once were 🥺

Degbeme · 70-79, M

@Tumbleweed In a way do understand what you`re saying. I saw it with my mother. She was always knitting, crocheting or sewing. Then her eyes began to fail and the cancer took over.

Adrift · 61-69, F

@Degbeme I saw it with both of my parents.
It really sucks to see someones independence slowly chip away.

Captain · 61-69, M

Age I take it...

SwampFlower · 31-35, F

Ask them to tell you about them sometime.

Tumbleweed · F

@SwampFlower Sometimes they do tell me little stories 🥹

MsSwan

Getting old svcks

Tumbleweed · F

@MsSwan It really does

MsSwan

@Tumbleweed My neighbor was lucky. She lived to be 90 years old but was active until the end. She even used to clean her own gutters!! She would ask me to keep an eye on her in case she fell off the ladder! 😱

Crazy old bat. 🤭

Tumbleweed · F

@MsSwan The lady I do privately is 91 & still drives!

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