Boomers.101: Adjust and Adapt.

My latest Nontradgrad Adventure is riding the bus. 
Due to a Great Recession beyond my ability to fix and that I accept in serenity, I am car-less now. I see this change in lifestyle as NORMAL. TYPICAL. A SOCIAL TREND. because it is. 

 Riding public transit here is pleasant. I am meeting 'regulars' in the same boat, 'regulars a little 'outside the norm', and professionals --nurse, artist (peace within, glowing with satisfaction). Sometimes I sit on a bench waiting and marvel at the autos just honestly looking like a race in a lab. 

 A new creative outlet; mildly challenging 🧠. I am walking more than I was and calmer. Sometimes one of Ventura's significant population of "Legal" homeless citizens shares a bus stop bench. They mostly don't converse. They are so tired. Their filth is so uncomfortable. Their degree of hopelessness is greater than mine. Even that summer of ideation over killing myself... 
I take two extra protein bars along for them. 

 Next: a 'win' here inside this little senior HUD building... IT IS A CONSTANT CHALLENGE TO PROTECT MY PRIVACY AND AUTONOMY... 🕵️‍♀️

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