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What’s next?

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For my whole life I’ve lived in a city with both Sears and JC Penny’s stores near by. These stores played a prominent role in the communities where I’ve lived and have just been a part of my life forever. You could depend on the quality of the goods you found at both of these retailers.

Sears is where I visited with Santa when I was young and where we purchased our last refrigerator only a year ago. I would spend hours and hours as a child searching through their catalog for things I wanted for Christmas.

Penny’s is where sheets and towels came from in my household growing up. I registered there when we were married. I spent lots of time in their catalogues growing up and have bought many gifts and articles of clothing for myself over the years there too.

These icons are no longer to be a part of the community where I live. Sears left all ready and JC Penny’s will be gone this summer. Who will I depend on now? Where will I find what I once knew was available at these stores? How can there not be Sears and JC Penny’s just down the street?

I am sad to say goodbye to a part of my childhood and adult life with the closing of these two stores. It’s like the loss of an era. What will be next?

The world is ever changing.

At times I feel out of sync with all the change going on around me and the reality of my age hits me over the head. I really have been around awhile. There has been enormous change to adapt to over the course of my life time.

Change I can certainly count on.

It’s interesting isn’t it how different change events stir up reminders of time passing, loss and aging and challenge us to grow!

What change is a reminder that you really are getting older and challenges you to grow?