My stomach twists
when I feel my age -
at least my body’s age;
my mind juggles all the
what if’s and want to’s
that jostle for attention.
Age just keeps aging!
Want to’s take energy.
Makes things a bit off kilter.
So I’ll just march on
even if it is a bit slower
~ some days.
“As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.”
~ Doris Lessing, author
(1919 ~ 2013)
What attracted my glance?
The bright red against the green?
The sunlit leaves in this early autumn?
No matter.
The beauty all around in the details,
the finesse of nature’s wand
stops me for the moment
to I take it in.
On any day we pass by
the details with barely a glance.
It may be the clouds in the sky or
the woman sitting hunched on a corner.
Yes, it is hard to see the beauty
in those scenes unless we look and understand.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
~ Marie Curie, scientist
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| Regina General Hospital and Nurses Residence |
Each year we gather, still standing although our Nurses Residence and Hospital are gone with the tick of the clock. Vanished into a parking lot. Our numbers have gotten smaller with the passing of time but we are still laugh, visit, reminisce, and sing. Family stories have become histories. What once was career, advanced education and travel, is now full of grandchildren and great grandchildren, nephews and nieces ~ ~ and travel. At the end of our gathering each year we sing our school song: “We Are the General Girls!” some voices not quite as strong, but all still full of the joy and hard work of our nursing years.
“Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch.”
~ Judy Blume, author
