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Thursday, October 31, 2024

There Are Times


There are times I want to say

I am growing old. But when 


I look at the numbers attached 

to my name they don’t make 


sense. As though they belong 

to someone else with a  


visage different than the one I remember. A photo from a 


skating event, or beginning Grade One, or a family 


wedding. But then I look in the 

mirror and see the face I see every 


morning. Older and, if the saying 

holds true, wiser. In my heart, all 


the added years fall away and I am 

that child, that teen, that young adult, 


that 30 something, and a few more 

decades. Those smile and worry 


wrinkles, dark hair streaked with 

white, and a few creaky joints? 


Merely a gentle sculpting of my mind, 

my spirit, my soul and my body.


“The great thing about getting older is 

you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”

~ Madeleine L’Engle, author

(November, 1918 ~ September, 2007)

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