Quote Originally Posted by razz View Post
And here I was thinking we were talking about the lonely people as were described in the two songs from Alan and Catherine. Silly me.
Not silly at all. I like your positive approach to building community, and wish you were my neighbor. We could walk our dogs together!

I spend a lot of time lately at the nursing home. The problems of dementia are way beyond what is suggested in the Prine song. It's a good song, but with real life dementia, real life nursing homes, real life people at the end stage of life, I wish the answers were as simple as Prine implies.

But that's not what you were talking about, and I think you are right, that we are all way to plugged in for our own goods. I was just at my son and dil's for example,a nd they do the thing where they are looking at their phone while having a conversation. He always said he would not get a cell phone for that reason, and now he does it, too.