Your Retirement Living Connection

By Ranny Levy

Peter Yarrow, a Grammy-award winner, has been a long time advocate for social change, reaching back to his involvement in festivals for peace and the 1969 anti-war March on Washington in which some half million people participated. In an effort to combat school violence, he has focused his energy on projects reaching out to youth and communities through Operation Respect, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1999 to combat bullying ridicule and violence in schools. It offers curriculum to children as young as pre-schoolers and continuing through grade school and later.

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You’ve written a will, completed a durable power of attorney, and filed a set of medical directives with your physician.  As far as you are concerned, your estate is in order.  And from a legal point of view, you are right.  If you have been well advised, your wishes about your estate will be clearly spelled out.

Following them may be another matter entirely.  Tracking down your safe deposit key, insurance policies, and even your estate-planning documents can be a trial if your executors or heirs are not familiar with the way you arrange your records.  For this reason, it is always a good idea to add a letter of instruction to your estate documents.

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Some of the greatest artists of our time faced limitations as they grew older.  Claude Monet had cataracts. He continued painting.  Pierre-Auguste Renoir had rheumatoid arthritis. He had assistants place his brush in his hand. Edgar Degas had macular degeneration.  He turned to sculpture so he could rely on his sense of touch.  As their experience shows, you can’t always choose to be healthy, but you can choose how you respond to changes in health.

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When it comes to technology, radio is hardly the new kid on the block.  Most adults have been listening to radio their entire lives, and many of us remember the Golden Age of Radio.  Back then, families would gather around the radio set and listen to the Glenn Miller Orchestra playing live from the Hotel Pennsylvania or to such classic shows as Dragnet and Fibber McGee and Molly.  For most people, the last exciting radio breakthrough came during the 1950s, when kids took time off from twirling their hula hoops to hold that wondrous invention, the transistor radio, up to their ears.