Continuity of Life
We sure don’t live in an age-friendly culture—unless, of course, you count the new trend of “ageless” skincare products! Let’s be honest, aging has us all a bit on edge. But imagine if we treated our elders likewise wizards instead of just folks with more wrinkles than a shar-pei dog! If we could see beyond those laugh lines, we might discover a treasured trove of character, humor, and love that comes only after decades of bonding over the endless punker stories and bad tattoos!
If we make it to forty this is when we realize that we are not getting any younger.
Then if we don’t fight it, we can review our life, a recapitulation, a spiraling around and looking at life. Looking at the continuity of life is so important.
For me it is also looking at friends in my life. Why do some endure with time and others fade away? Then there are the friends that come up from the past to surprise me with complete joy. This is freedom for me… to have friends that take me for who I am without judgments, conditions, or prejudices about how I look on the outside.
I see joy also in the sun, moon, stars, and cosmos as a consistency that life will go on some way or another.
My Poem of Age…
Rosemary and purple flowers
Laugh at me and show me your mockery!
My heart will endure regardless of your callousness.
Moon hides from me behind the clouds
As if you do not know I am here
I will still drink my beer and enjoy its bubbles.
Water makes my feet too cold
Freeze me with your flowing gossip
I will dry you off with a clean rough towel
Tossing you in the washer to be cleaned.
Fire dancing warm as red, purple, and orange
Burn my body after I die
Ash I once was and ash I will become again
My spirit will forgive you all
It is continually young.
The Wise Ones: Stencil Relief by Hudley Flipside
40 is indeed an age of realization. It is an age of pursuing the dreams we held back, of running after the reasons of our happiness and peace. Time seems shorter and more precious.
Thank you for sharing…