Impossibilities Are A Prelude To Possibilities

Pundits said to me, "You, a 76-year-old husband, can't take care of your 72-year-old wife, who, at the time, was battling cognitive impairment." I replied, "Why not?" They suggested, "Take her to a nursing home; don't kill yourself trying to care for her!" They probably meant well, but I knew better. I decided to honor the vow we made to each other in 1971: "I take this woman, Agnes Ndungwa Akinyemi, to be my wedded wife... to honor and love her... for better or for worse, in sickness and in hea