I was just talking to my parents about this. They're in their second decade of "retirement" (really just working a little less and volunteering a lot more in t

I was just talking to my parents about this. They're in their second decade of "retirement" (really just working a little less and volunteering a lot more in their case.) Many of their friends fulfilled lifelong plans to sell their homes and move to the lake or someplace warm or travel the world. Most of these friends are now back in town having missed the connections that they built over a lifetime. One couple even bought the house next to their old house so they could reconnect with their neighborhood. God bless people like the author and her husband, but most of us are sustained not by where we live but by lifelong connections to others.