Tom, you are more than kind. The importance of family and attempting to keep the relationships working. Is very important. Many of us will depend on the decisions they make as we get really old as well.

I see my generation or what is left of it a byproduct of massive transitional periods. I often talk to older people that are essentially just cast adrift. Their contemporaries they knew are gone. They also have no effective families.

Yet once again another new era is coming upon us. I am cognizant of this as I have lived through two of them. Things will be much different when it is fully established. It seems to be a byproduct of a heavy inflationary period. A precursor to the change basically.

It has to arrive one way or another with all the growing distortions.