Finding Life through "Grandma"

Old people come in all shapes and sizes. What we do about old age will depend in part upon our education, our religion, our ethnic or national identity, our family, our past or present occupations, our fields of interest, and many other things. I visited my grandmother in a nursing home in Maryland every year. I feel as though my grandma is dealing with aging very well. For being 80 years old, this "hot ma on wheels" has a lot of years to go. Of course, that is what she told me. I believe every word of it. All I had to do was ask her, what makes you so strong and content with life, and she got on her high horse and talked about her learning experience, growing old. She made it so easy for me to understand aging, that now I look forward to growing old gracefully.…