A woman invested one hundred fifty thousand dollars from her personal retirement funds so that senior women would have access to reasonably priced housing and avoid spending their later years in solitude. In the town of Cumby, Texas, seventy-year-old Robyn Yerian withdrew resources from her 401(k) account to establish The Bird’s Nest, a collection of compact residences designed expressly for older women who wanted both low-cost living arrangements and the company of others. Across a five-acre property, Robyn arranged for essential services and prepared fourteen plots suitable for tiny homes. At present, eleven women ranging in age from sixty to eighty reside there, each contributing roughly four hundred fifty dollars monthly. The residents discovered benefits that extended well beyond modest rental costs. They prepare and enjoy meals together, assist with daily tasks, monitor one another’s health during periods of sickness, and gather beneath a shared outdoor structure. The setting has evolved into an environment in which advancing age need not equate to social isolation. Interest in the community has been substantial. Robyn is said to have obtained over five hundred inquiries for the limited fourteen available positions. She might have devoted her entire retirement nest egg exclusively to her own needs. Instead, she directed a portion of those savings toward creating an asset that many seniors value as highly as shelter itself: a neighborhood in which no individual is required to grow old in isolation.

I actually don’t care who’s LA Mayor. I just want to hire someone who is willing to bring on an adequate number of @LAPD for a city this size; properly equip the @LAFD; pick up the trash in the streets and on the freeways; get rid of all homeless encampments and put the mentally ill people who light fires, harass us at red lights, walk onto the freeways, etc into treatment; uphold existing laws and punish the increasing crime; fill potholes and file down the tire-popping ridges in the roads and freeways; shutdown and prosecute street take-overs that block traffic and scar the intersections; and stop “losing” billions of our tax dollars on various unfinished city projects. It’s a very low bar. @spencerpratt was the only person in this race who planned on doing something about any of it. I’d be fine if Bass as the @MayorOfLA had been interested in doing any of that the past 4 years. I’d be fine if @nithyavraman had gone in this direction during her years in City Council. But now it seems they want us to believe that most of the people in LA just love the city as the mess that it is, and in fact want the very people who made it this way to continue on and make it even worse. Ok. I don’t believe you at all. But, I guess we’ll all get to watch you make a mess of the Olympics and any other event (natural or planned) that occurs here. It’s remarkable that competence is in such short supply.

An ex-Muslim who was sold as a child bride at age 13 and suffered inhumane rape and torture in Iran at the hands of her Muslim husband speaks out against Islam after fleeing Iran and building a new life in America. Please share this widely!