You’re not sayin’ that I have feet of crow, are you? Hey, they give anyone character!
Well, mama read this wonderful article by Charles Blow and our spark today is from the last paragraph, in case you can’t open the whole piece.
This was the message:
I have no intention of raging against my aging. I intend to embrace it, to embrace the muscle aches and the crow’s feet as the price of growing in wisdom and grace; to understand that age is not my body forsaking me but my life rewarding me.
Mama was particularly happy about that ‘crow’s feet’ part, haha. But poor crows!!! To be so maligned…THEY don’t have them, that’s for sure, except at the end of their little legs.
And I’d better take good care of what’s at the end of MY little legs!
I really like that Spark, thank you for sharing it.
We, too, love it, especially those of us…er…THOSE, period who are getting older. I’m outta here but watching it all unfold../
What really shows my age, like the white hair, I celebrate. What annoys me is when people think the effects of illness, especially illness caused by chemical pollution, are something to do with age.
The only health problem I have is reactions to chemicals people spray into the air. I’m fifty-something. On a bad day I feel as miserable as I did under similar circumstances when I was nineteen. On a good day I’m calmer than I was at nineteen, but much stronger.
It always annoys me, too, when someone falters and that person or some other person starts blathering about aging and deterioration. They’re ready to bury someone who’s not even seventy years old, and the person has only reacted to some sort of medical problem the same way the person did fifty years ago.
There are some celebrities, especially in politics (both major parties), who really are consistently off their game and would do better to retire…but for every one of them I think there must be fifty baby-boomers who either are still in their prime, or would be if they took care of their health, and are being urged to retire (or not hired) just because their work is worth more than the employer can afford to pay.
HEAR HEAR! Age is in your BRAIN and attitudes and yes, many can function really well into their …well….often NINETIES!!! Longevity has changed for the better and mama says she sees more and more anthos dying in their 100s!
Still feel like a kid on the inside; don’t care what the outside looks like much, Angel Loulou.
I feel the same way and so do mama and papa. It’s the inside that matters and the outside will follow…
Aging is a pain (usually literally) … but it sure beats the alternative!
HAHA…yes, it definitely beats the alternative.
Wise words, Loulou. Embracing your age is a very freeing experience.
That’s a perfect word for embracing one’s age. FREEING!
I do like that quote……and I really have embraced my own aging and all that comes with it….aches, gray hair, wrinkles, but I don’t WANT Teddy to age. The thing about cats is they are “forever our babies” and that’s just wonderful no matter what their age!
Hugs, Pam
Oh, sweet Pam, but we kitties do age and yes, it’s so sad when we leave earlier than anthros….so sad. But oh, those years we give you!!!
Cats are lucky, they always look young. 🙂 XO
HAHA, isn’t that the truth! I never looked old, Ms E, but I did get a few grey hairs around my ears…
We agree LouLou. And there really isn’t much you can do about aging except accept it and hope for the best !
AND HAVE SOME FUN with all of your amazing knowledge from the years of observing and digesting so much info.
No, you don’t have crow’s feet at all Loulou! I couldn’t read the article, a subscription is required.
Will send in email…so wonderful.