Patience and Persistence Increases with Age

This is from a practice site.  I only found 2 connections.  Can you find all four?

 #139  December 10:  Do I become more patient and persistent as I age?  I’d like to think so.  The New York Times launched the word game Connections in August, but I didn’t find out about it until late October when I read an article about it.  Liking word games and being an ardent player of Wordle (see #104) I immediately gave it a try… and failed… over and over again.  But the concept of forming 4 categories of connections among the 16 words was intriguing and with retirement I have time to play word games (Every morning I play Boggle, Jumble, Wordle, and now Connections.  I have found I don’t have the attention span to play the crossword, though I try it occasionally.)  Connections, however, is very different and requires a different kind of logic and way of thinking.  It took me almost a month to go from failing every day to failing occasionally.  I still get it in just 4 turns (the least possible) only about once per week, but I’m working on it!  Connections helped me flex those patience and persistence skills.12/10

#140  December 11:  One more thing I’ve noticed about my playing the game Connections.  When I “win” the game, the 4^th combination is by default.  And usually I have no clue what the connection among the last 4 is.  Here is an example.  I got the first 3 in 3 tries:

SO, I’ve “won”… but what is the connection between spoon, lining, fox and screen?  SILVER!! 12/17