I didn’t live all of these years only to die in obscurity. My old age is not for nothing. I live to improve it for Maria, the farm, and others. I see the blog is one way – offering sanctuary – and the Food Pantry is another, getting food to hungry and abandoned people.

Our work with the refugee children is also being done in Sue Silverstein’s class in Schenectady.

And so are the flower photos. And the chance to give extraordinary lives to animals that need some help.

People tell me daily how much they mean to them; that alone is worth living for. From best-selling author to independent philosopher with a blog. Quite a chance, and more to come. Thanks for coming along. We’re about to start a new chapter, my readers and me; it will be exciting, demanding, and sometimes frightening.  Some of you have come along from the beginning. There is more to come. I’m ready. So are my flowers and my cameras.