'Fina, back at Silver Pines they have all kinds of things for old people to do. 

There is golf, there is Ping-Pong, writing classes, costume parties, putting on plays... You can even learn to do karate and give massages if you want. 

But this is the first time in a very long while I am able to be. 

Sit and think about nothing all day. Smell flowers I never smelled in all my life. 

Tell stories to that little girl in the water, or go drinking and dancing with the hairy people, those funny smelling ones. 

Nothing to explain to anyone.

When you are old like me, 'Fina, you will understand what a good thing it is to have nothing to explain.

Abuelita, The Unicorn Sonata ~ Peter S.Beagle