One man in his time
We all, I think make the mistake, of confusing actors with the roles they play on stage. But we are all actors on the stage of life. Don’t confuse me with roles I play.
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Better late
I reached my seventies, it seemed, in a rush. Suddenly I was wandering in a forest of years: 71, 77, 73, 78, 74, and look, over there, at the edge of the forest, is 79. And I think, “I won’t be in this forest very long, for I am running through it. I should make
Believe it or not
Convince someone to believe in an imaginary creature who lives in the sky and takes an interest in the outcome of football games and the purchase of lottery tickets and the number of survivors in airplane crashes, and you can get them to believe in anything.
Turn back time
Wouldn’t it be good if we could go back in time at will, to any part of our lives, in turn, and fiddle, adjust, undo, redo, make better, make amends, set right, streamline, straighten course, enjoy, savour, say goodbye, say hullo, say thank you, all with the benefit of hindsight. Or would it?
My way or the highway
All of us, really, have one track minds. Some of us, though, are happy to explore side tracks, exit signs, underpasses, overpasses, lay-bys, and alternate scenic routes. And some of us aren’t.
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Sumer is icumen in
Watching Spring end and Summer begin is like saying goodbye to visiting friends and seeing an enemy coming up the street.
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Threadbare
Worrying away at an old memory is like picking away at a loose thread in a tapestry; soon everything unravels.