Howdy! May this note find you happily above ground🪦😉, with your Medicare insurance coverage🏥working well😄.
The Open Election Period to change Advantage plans ends Monday, thank goodness!
Hopefully, some of the illegal telemarketers📞promising benefits you’re not eligible for will go away… for a while🤞.
Now if your Medicare coverage ISN’T working, or you’d like to shop or review your plan, email Gray, Gray@TheBig65.com or book a time on my calendar.
Plato would like to remind everyone there is always road work ahead😆and we are happy to help.
Spring🌻has finally sprung in our neck of the woods. The bees 🐝are doing good work.
We’ll be sending honey 🍯 to all those who’ve recently referred friends or have given us a Google review. That includes Susan M, Ann H, Sharon T, Marjorie P, Ted C, Sarah K, and Kathy G.
If we owe you honey for a review or a referral, PLEASE email Gray.
This week, I’m sharing a photo from high school that means the world to me.
It’s a shot of me, my best friend Luke Jr, and our dads, taken during the last week of our Senior year.
After leaving the Shenandoah Valley and building lives in different places, our friendship never faded—and watching our fathers become close was one of life’s unexpected gifts.
This week, I heard about a young’un whose best friend passed away completely unexpectedly. There is nothing sadder than when a young person predeceases his parents.
It reminded me how deeply we can love and how devastating loss can be—no matter your age.
Grief is the price we pay for loving deeply. And it comes in waves, with tears and with laughter.
Whether you’re dealing with the loss of a friend, a parent, a partner, or even a beloved pet, grief has no timetable. Here are a few thoughts that might help:
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Acknowledge the pain
Don’t rush to “get over it.” Grief is real and deserves your attention. -
Let memories surface
Looking at photos, sharing stories, or simply sitting in silence can be healing. -
Connection heals
Talking to others who’ve experienced loss reminds us we’re not alone. Community matters. -
Grieve in your own way
There’s no right way to mourn. Cry, write, walk, pray, laugh at old memories—whatever helps. -
Time doesn’t heal all—but it softens the edges
Over time, the sharpness of grief dulls, and love takes center stage. - Honor your loved one.
Plant a tree, cook their favorite dish, tell their story. Let their memory keep living through you.
I keep this old photo of my late mother on my desk. Dinner with her on the Queen Mary in Long Beach in the early 1990’s.
This is the ship both she and my dad emigrated to America on separately… dad a week before World War II began from Germany, mom as a college student from the Netherlands to start a new life in 1950s America.
After dinner, we walked the ship and called my curmudgeonly father to celebrate the evening. It’s an evening I’ll never forget.
So this week, I raise a cup of coffee to the bonds that never break—even after we’re gone.
And if you’re carrying the weight of loss, just know: it’s okay to feel it, to talk about it, and to reach out for support.
Let’s be kind to ourselves and to each other and celebrate that we are still above ground.
Congratulations to Tina and Jay on their retirements and the celebration they had with family to mark a new chapter. “May the circle be unbroken.”
Keep squeezing the juice out of life and look for ways to help others!
If family or friends need help… referrals are the lifeblood of my business.
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Karl Bruns-Kyler is a Medicare insurance broker and independent Medicare agent licensed to help Medicare recipients in thirty states around the country, including:
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