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Get Ready for the Upcoming Holiday Season

By Gabby Gregory

When you’ve been driving or walking around, you or whoever you are traveling with have probably slowed down or stopped to admire the bright lights decorating a home or business, especially during the holiday season. There’s just something special and beautiful about these twinkling lights, drawing our attention and leaving us to stare at them in wonder and awe. Most of the time, we only really get to see these enchanting lights around the Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa holidays, likely because it’s a hassle to put up all of those lights. You get tangled in all the wires and dig out multiple extension cords only to nd out that half of the bulbs have burned out anyway. Then it’s time for another expensive trip to the store for more cheap, fussy lights that don’t last, especially in Florida weather.

But what if I told you that you don’t have to give yourself a headache over putting up lights on your home or business? And, what if I told you that those pretty lights don’t have to be torn down and tossed away only after being used for one holiday? With Treasure Coast TrimLight, you can light up your life all year long without any work or stress!

Trimlight is a patented exterior lighting system with over 16 million color options for your home, business, patio, pool screen, boat dock, and more. Now, you can celebrate and decorate (with no effort!) not only during the winter season, but also during any day you choose! Whether it’s a birthday, a Superbowl party, Easter, the 4th of July, a gender reveal party, St. Patrick’s Day, or a random Tuesday, your home or business will literally shine like none other.

Treasure Coast TrimLight is an authorized dealer of the Trimlight product, professionally and expertly installing the permanent exterior lighting to remain hidden during the day and dazzle onlookers at night. Owners, business partners, and married couple John and Brennan Brown are at the helm of the business, dedicated to providing impeccable customer service and this “amazing product to homeowners and businesses on the Treasure Coast” after having installed Trimlight on their previous home in Seattle, Washington. So impressed by the product’s high quality and endless possibilities, the Browns decided to bring it to people on the Treasure Coast when they moved back to Port St. Lucie to be with family.

Treasure Coast TrimLight’s year-round exterior lighting has countless programmable colors, animations, and preset options for every major holiday on their userfriendly, cloud-based phone app, which is available for free download on any mobile device. You can schedule your lights to turn on and off at certain times with just the touch of a button. They can be brightened or

lightened, made to move forward or backward, or be arranged in a certain pattern, all with a simple tap. The lights can even be paired to an Apple or Google smart device to “dance” along to music. And, you don’t even have to be in the same country as your home or business to do so! Trimlight is connected to your Internet, so you can control your lights no matter where you may be.

Trimlight features energyef cient LED bulbs that are weather proof, water resistant, and have a 50,000-hour lifespan. If, somehow, anything happens to the lights, then Treasure Coast TrimLight offers the very BEST lifetime warranty, plus a 3-year labor warranty. These warranties

are second-to-none in the illumination industry. Did a bulb burn out? No sweat! You just call John and Brennan at Treasure Coast TrimLight and they will be there to x it at no charge to you.

Call John and Brennan Brown at Treasure Coast TrimLight for a complimentary quote on lights for your home or business! They will schedule a time to come out and measure the structure, and within 24 hours, you’ll have your free quote.

With Treasure Coast TrimLight, you can have peace of mind knowing that you have a delightful high-quality product built to last. John assures, “We pride ourselves on customer service, ensuring that

everything is installed in a quality manner and that the product functions as it is supposed to. And if there’s ever a situation that arises, then we are a phone call away!”

John and Brennan encourage you to give Treasure Coast TrimLight a call so you can light up your life at any time of the year with no hard work, frustration, or stress!

Treasure Coast TrimLight serves communities on the Treasure Coast from Sebastian to Hobe Sound. To schedule a complimentary quote, call 772-919-5082 or visit treasurecoasttrimlight.com.

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Hifolks. I’ve had quite a few emails over the past few weeks, all on the topic of loneliness, from senior citizens who have either lost a loved one, or have relocated to our area. Funny how related topics crop up in my email from time to time, as if the universe has sensed the need to take a closer look at the sadness that has permeated many of our friends and neighbors. You might not know them by name, or if you do, you might not have guessed their vulnerability when you run into them at the grocery store, but there are a lot of very alone, lonely people trying to gure out how to live the rest of their lives without companionship, and sometimes, even without conversation.

eir emails provoke memories of my own mother, who lived alone until she was almost 96, staunchly independent, having lost two husbands. On my rounds coming home from work, busy, running to the market, guring out dinner, bringing her over a hot meal, then running home to my own family, I would o en look at my watch as I pulled into her parking lot, noticing my time of arrival, and estimating the respectable amount of time I would stay with her, before rushing home. A er I put away her groceries, made her dinner, tidied up her house, did some laundry, and put her dishes away, I noticed that an hour had passed, and it was time for me to go. is went on for some years prior, but as one year turned into the next, and she was less mobile, having given up her freedom by way of giving up her automobile, she sometimes made comments such as “are you sure you can’t stay a little longer?” Sometimes

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I did, but reluctantly, not that I didn’t enjoy her company, but because my schedule with work, a husband, and household tasks hovered in my head, and much of the time, I would reminder that I had already been there for an hour, and I would return the next day. She’d smile, and tell me to have a good night, and I’d leave, rushing home for my next duties. My life was so lled with duties, that it didn’t occur to me how lonely she was, that she had 23 out of 24 hours by herself, with the television her only friend. Most of the people she once knew had died, and because she was no longer active in her condo community, she hadn’t made any new acquaintances. I was her only “friend” but I didn’t know it then, too self-absorbed with my own life.

My mother has been gone three years now, the last few spent in a nursing home, where I again visited her every day for one hour, and again, she’d look at me with eyes that said, “can’t you stay a little longer?” I had no idea what loneliness was, until now, until my own husband passed away, my own children have grown and moved on with their lives, until I received the emails asking me, begging me, to tell these readers how to ll their time. I look back and regret every day that I didn’t o er my mother more, whatever more might have been, and that I thought I had to rush home to take care of my own dishes and laundry, but if I could turn back time, if I had one more chance, if I could live without regret, I would have taken the evening to sit with her, not to cook and clean, but to tell her stories, to ask her what she was thinking, what memories she might have had that day, and how important she was to me. I

can’t do that. It’s too late for me, but it may not be too late for you.

If you have an older friend or relative, do not assume that they’re ne, just because they put on a brave front. Time goes slowly when you have nothing to look forward to, and no one to talk to. Take the time, o er some of yourself to someone, even if you don’t know them, even if it’s just a kind word to a stranger at the grocery store. We, in Florida, are a group of people more so than most states, who have lost spouses, who are growing older, and who are lonely, with lifelong friends who are sick or passing away.

For What It’s Worth, I can’t give my mother more of my time, but I can give it to others, every day, with a smile or kind word. I don’t know where to point these readers who have asked me how to make friends and where to nd them, but I do know that the obvious answers, joining a group of people with like interests aren’t always possible for those who are in rm or unable to drive. Take a good, hard look in your neighborhood, at your places of worship, at the grocery store, and you might just nd someone who would appreciate some time. You won’t be sorry.

Anne L. Morgan, M.D.