WILDLY FREE ELDER
The Artistry of Aging
When The World Is Too Much With Us
Rocky Fork Creek State Park, TN/Photography by Gaye Abbott
When the world is too much for us, and we can’t hear life’s music, there is always someplace we can go to hear it again. For each of us, as our physical lives move towards the ultimate letting go, it is uniquely different.
I am wondering how you are feeling, moving and thinking at this stage of your life?
For me I am finding that often all I want to do is move away from all the woes of the world, the divisive fighting that only causes more separation, hatred and destruction, and the harm that is being done to our precious planet and the life that lives here.
Yet, we are part of all that simply by being here…..including death which seems to live right next door these days showing up on a daily basis in thoughts and reflections as a reminder of how precious the moments are.
Bodies age. Minds change. Our loved ones transition. Past abilities and accomplishments seem to be in another lifetime.
This morning the birdsong outside my open bedroom window – so celebratory and filled with secrets – brings a smile to my face, a fuller breath, and focused attention on noticing the life giving ordinary secrets hidden in plain sight.
WHAT CAN I SAY
What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again
the leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the very face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinished story……and you are somewhere in it
And it will never end until all ends.
Take your busy heart to the art museum and the chamber of commerce
But take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child
Is singing still.
I am of years lived, so far, seventy four,
And the leaf is singing still.
~Mary Oliver
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Gaye Abbott, Wildly Free Elder, 09/01/24
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