If I have the great fortune to have half of Dorothy's wisdom, health and smarts, this may turn out to be the most rewarding chapter of a busy lifetime - when I come more firmly and confidently into my own personhood even as my outward horizons inevitably shrink.
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The Broken Plate
These are the stages in our lives - the accumulation of things that make us happy and then their gradual release back into the world.
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Swan's Island, Louis de Moll
When I'm Sixty-Four
I won't need to dredge up the song's words for the occasion because I am living them. Among all of the anthems of our generation, this is the one, ironically, that has modestly come to pass - not 'Revolution,' not 'Born to Run,' not even 'We Shall Overcome.'
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