From Our Perspective; Some Thoughts:

So this has been one of those watershed years, where a lot changes.  My father  passed away in June at the age of 73.  He was a good man and I miss him.  I retired from the National Guard after 27 years of varying degrees of uniformed service.  Most recently my grandmother passed away at the age of 92 after living for several years with dementia in a nursing home.    There has been a fair amount of stress in the last several months, some of it self imposed some of it just imposed.