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Boca Pointe Community Association, Inc. I’m Nearly
6909 SW 18th St., Suite A120 A special Thank You to our monthly volunteer contributing writers A Century Old
Boca Raton, FL 33433
Office (561) 395-7551 Fax (561) 395-5936 Steve Handwerker Elyse Weintraub Brown Yishai Mizrahi
Email: info@bocapointe.com Judith Levy Hillary Reynolds Ashley Rozo By Robert W. Goldfarb
Website: www.bocapointe.com
Dr. Ronald J. Meyers Oris Martin Tonya Jansson
Access Control Lisa Sileo Peter Sachs The Pap Corps Last month I became 94-years-old. In six years I will
Operator: (561) 395-3392 Harold Katz Arthur Dermer Robert W. Goldfarb have lived for a century, a date historians use when they
Voice mail system: (561) 395-3369 Harriet Rubin William A. Gralnick Marci Woodward write of Christopher Columbus or of the Pilgrims, not
Website: www.gateaccess.net Anne Gannon Milagros Gutierrez de Herrera Josette Veltri
of someone like me. The Pilgrims did arrive here almost
Staff The views of the writers of the various articles in this newspaper do not exactly 300 years before I did, but I admit 1929 is a very
April Narine, General Manager necessarily reflect the views of the Boca Pointe Community Association. long time ago.
Lisa Cammaleri, Assistant Manager The Association nor the individual writers are not responsible for claims or
Diane Esola, Administrative Assistant promises contained in any advertising material appearing in the Viewpointe. I was born in the first weeks of the Great Depression,
Marcel Dos Santos, Director of Security Such claims and promises are the sole responsibility of the individual an event for which my father blamed me. I have lived
advertiser. under16 presidents and through ll decades that shook
Viewpointe of Boca Pointe is the newspaper with unemployment, wars, economic booms and busts,
of Boca Pointe Community Association, Inc.
Please direct all questions, comments or scientific leaps that launched the Atomic Age and
articles for Viewpointe to lisa.cammaleri@ ended polio, and a vocabulary expanded by words like
fsresidential.com. “feminism,” “gay,” “transgender” and “internet.” More
intimate to me, they were years in which I made my first
friends, went to school, served in one of those wars,
went to college thanks to the G.I. Bill, launched a career,
As a resident of Boca Pointe, married, had children, grandchildren and, recently, a
great-grandson.
Treasurer of the BPCA board that would take me to larger offices on higher floors. I
Like most white men my age, I competed for jobs
and a member of the CLUB do think about those years, but try to spend more time
looking forward. When I do look back, I’ve read enough
I stay up to date on the about mindfulness to avoid thinking of things I didn’t do
and should have done, or did and shouldn’t have.
Real Estate Market in our years with passion rather than surrender. I look within
I’ve set goals I hope will take me through these final
community. We recently myself to learn if there is a hint of wisdom deep inside
that will light the road ahead. I also look outside, reading
had 14 properties sold. A studies of aging both current and classical that will add
their light. Finally, I am doing my best to shed habits that
warm welcome to our new are expected in a younger man but unseemly in someone
my age. Perhaps most difficult is replacing the sharp bite
neighbors! of competitiveness with compassion that will help me
walk more gently through these final years.
I have found hints of wisdom deep within. The boy
I have years of experience in and young man I was managed to win the approval of
tough men who led street gangs and infantry platoons
mortgage banking, appraisal and Ivy League professors and corporate executives who
were tough in their worlds. As I’ve aged, I have been
Michelle Ricciuti negotiations, inspections, discovering a more spiritual side of myself. I’ve been
listening to guided meditations led by spiritual leaders
1031 exchanges, property that are helping guide me on the road I’m walking now.
I meditate every day and hear in the stillness words that
Keller Williams Realty ownership and management. are lighting my path.
I don’t know if I’m going to – or even want to – live for a
Boca Raton I treat all my clients with the century. This I do know: I intend to live whatever time is left
with the passion that carried through my journey from boy to
same passion, dedication, man to husband to father to grandfather to great-grandfather.
I know my strength is ebbing, thoughts sometimes flee, that
7280 W Palmetto Park and integrity no matter the it’s harder to drive at night. But, I am absolutely certain the
confidence that flooded through the man I was still surges
Road No. 110 value. though the nearly century old being I am now.
Bob’s articles have appeared in The New York Times,
Boca Raton, FL 33433 Being licensed not only in FL The San Francisco Chronicle and in Next Avenue, the
781-956-6899 but NH and ME as well I am publication of the Public Broadcasting Service. His
book, “What’s Stopping Me From Getting Ahead?” was
michelle@michellersells.com able to get your listings out to published by McGraw Hill and is in five languages.
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them sell their home. Please keep garage
doors closed.
Please call today, I am here Your security
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Hot Topics
Group Notice
We are a women’s group who remember Reva
Tucker. Hot Topics has resumed meetings every Friday
and are seeking new members. Please join us for lively
discussions at 11:00am to 12:30pm at the Boca Pointe
Community Office. If you would like more information
or to sign up, please call 561-715-8298. 
