Maybe many people experience the grief of parental death around 47? I know it made the last year very depressing for me, working through the grief.
I recently turned 46. After a phone call from a much loved relative of my husband sharing that she may have a very serious disease, I realized that we are at the age where news shared tends to be bad.
In our twenties and thirties phone calls brought news of new babies, new jobs and new homes.
Lately the news has been heart attacks, cancer, dementia or that someone has passed.
That’s the way it goes in our fallen world.