… The consistent care necessary
to keep the body machinery functioning in spite of age and deterioration is
mandatory. A lifetime of training is
required. It’s so easy to blame the
terrain, so to speak, or the light and wind for our failures and backsliding.
But where the body is concerned there is not time for self-pity…. living as we
do in society that wants to put old people to bed. You can hardly get wisdom out of someone who
is lying around during his last years.
Actuality is needed right up to the end….It’s a matter of testing your
capacities and preparing for the next level.
Old age demands that we garner and lean on all previous experience.
from “A Walk on the Beach”, Joan Anderson
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