[ It can hurt like hell when you've written about age, you've lived it, you're living it here and now, you want to share the experience for the best reason possible -- because you have just witnessed a masterful display of the wealth that age and experience can bring -- and the program deletes your thoughts...]
[ It can hurt like hell when you've written about age, you've lived it, you're living it here and now, you want to share the experience for the best reason possible -- because you have just witnessed a masterful display of the wealth that age and experience can bring -- and the program deletes your thoughts...]
More writing on water...?
Let's go, anyway! I'll post and edit as I go along...
*
[There, the invisible censor has struck again. I must post what I draft more frequently...
Not to worry.
If, next week, I find myself still alive as I set out on my 85th year, I'll write this celebration of age and dedicate it to the man who inspired it today, President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, back to MLMinET.]
Yes, we all age, but some who live the fullest, most meaningful lives, don't live long. So its falls to older, maybe lesser men and women to continue
the work they began.
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Lives truncated.
Here, it's nothing but words... Normally, you should have had a complete item hours ago... Yet circumstances force me to leave you now.
With age can come wisdom, which is more than beauty, a fast tongue, knowledge, or experience. It is something more than such pieces or their sum. Who has not realized that they will never be the smartest or best looking among their peers, but would gladly settle for being the more thoughtful and wisely comported? When I hear Mr Biden speak, fumble with some words, and speak off-handed, I hear the traces of his lifetime of experiences and mistakes addressed and learned from; considered thoughts absent smoothness of the naively certain.
Thank you, Fred, for saying all these things, which I wanted to. But Biden inspired me to want to write a panegyric not only for him but to sing the virtues and advantages of age and experience -- all experience, errors, even disgrace, can become compost for fruitful growth.
And once again to plug my strong feeling that there's a crying need for alliances between young and old.
At this moment, we all need every possible encouragement, especially the young, especially the children.
If we'd all thought first, not of ourselves but of the children, with the love and care they need and deserve, we'd never have come down to this hard place.
[ It can hurt like hell when you've written about age, you've lived it, you're living it here and now, you want to share the experience for the best reason possible -- because you have just witnessed a masterful display of the wealth that age and experience can bring -- and the program deletes your thoughts...]
More writing on water...?
Let's go, anyway! I'll post and edit as I go along...
*
[There, the invisible censor has struck again. I must post what I draft more frequently...
Not to worry.
If, next week, I find myself still alive as I set out on my 85th year, I'll write this celebration of age and dedicate it to the man who inspired it today, President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, back to MLMinET.]
Yes, we all age, but some who live the fullest, most meaningful lives, don't live long. So its falls to older, maybe lesser men and women to continue
the work they began.
*
Lives truncated.
Here, it's nothing but words... Normally, you should have had a complete item hours ago... Yet circumstances force me to leave you now.
I shall return.
With age can come wisdom, which is more than beauty, a fast tongue, knowledge, or experience. It is something more than such pieces or their sum. Who has not realized that they will never be the smartest or best looking among their peers, but would gladly settle for being the more thoughtful and wisely comported? When I hear Mr Biden speak, fumble with some words, and speak off-handed, I hear the traces of his lifetime of experiences and mistakes addressed and learned from; considered thoughts absent smoothness of the naively certain.
Thank you, Fred, for saying all these things, which I wanted to. But Biden inspired me to want to write a panegyric not only for him but to sing the virtues and advantages of age and experience -- all experience, errors, even disgrace, can become compost for fruitful growth.
And once again to plug my strong feeling that there's a crying need for alliances between young and old.
Do write on, Peter. Last paragraph might be your beginning.
Thank you, Fred.
At this moment, we all need every possible encouragement, especially the young, especially the children.
If we'd all thought first, not of ourselves but of the children, with the love and care they need and deserve, we'd never have come down to this hard place.
You better, Peter. You are one of the people that keeps me coming here!
Thank you, Annie.