So this is kind of a companion piece to an episode I just did on
my show Really Am a Grandparent. You can find that where you're all fine,
all your fine podcast. I've been in the mood to talk, and
I have a different podcasts where it's appropriate here and appropriate there. So I'm
kind of moving around and working out my feelings about a recent thing that just
happened. That is, my grandmother, my last grandparent alive, my last
grandmother, last anything, passed away at age ninety eight, almost ninety nine,
day before nine ninth birthday this week. And it was a very complex
relationship. But I took about a little bit of that over on the other
show, I Really Have a Grandparent. You can check that episode out over
there, and you hear what I'm talking about. I'm thinking I want to
bring up here myself comfortable about here is that I'm fifty plus, only fifty
five in four months, literally literally in four months. My birthdays May tenth,
and this is we're talking. This is January sixteenth. My birthday is't
about four months. I be fifty five. I now have no grandparents.
I also know that I am fortunate on some level, even though we weren't
close to the end, I could still say I had a grandparent in my
forties and fifties. I have a lot of friends who are over for they
don't have it, or we're older. I don't have grandparents anymore. My
grandparents know and barely have parents. That's another thing. Both of my biological
parents are still alive, James Sr. And Benita. And many of you
know this or may not know this, that I almost lost my mother last
year. She almost died, but she came back. So I was already
faced with the mortality of having no mother. It was injured. It was
very interesting, very interesting. You guys, some of you guys have gone
through this. You understand we're at that age. We can lose a parent
in any age, but we're at that age where it's just more likely to
start losing parents and losing older people in your life. And then you wake
up and then you're like, I'm the older person. That's what's really a
trip. I got asked by a friend who's younger than me, and I
know he meant no disrespect, and I know that he came from a place
of love and support and true interest, but he said to me, I
kN I wanna interview for this this this thing, and and I I we
really need a place where our elders are heard. I accepted the invitation,
of course, but I had to laugh. I'm like, but I am
one of the elders, one of the elders, that's my position now this
point. And I found I'd be very interesting. That's all I wanted to
say today about this. I was like, I'm just finding that I am
f when you're fifty plus, you are you just there are some truths that
are just you can't And I