In early life no need to wear a watch because your day is set out for you. In adult life you check your watch a hundred times a day, every minute could be important. In old age you lose your watch. Minutes no longer of interest. Just getting through nights.
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An autobiography listing all the things you haven’t done in your life might be just as revealing as one about the things you have done.
If we do not provoke each other, test ideas, question values, disrupt faith, kiss the princess, then we shall all fall asleep. Perhaps it is better that way.
I challenged received wisdom, but those who had received that wisdom did not accept my challenge, said that the wisdom was unchallengeable, and therefore the challenge was wrong. Never mind, soon I will be gone, and then you can say “what challenge?”
Summer is here, in the middle of Spring, with the first warning of bushfires, and the first moment of almost treading on a snake (a cute baby Black, but hey a snake’s a snake). In winter I stride across the land (though always avoiding ants, and beetles, and spiders). I walk differently in Summer. Slower,
Whenever war is declared, whichever countries are involved, you will find, making the announcement, a clown, backed by his followers – all hard-faced men who intend to do well out of it.
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Being the “Oldest Inhabitant” of a town is a job for life; but not for long. “Village Idiot” also used to be a job for life and a long one; but now a new one comes along every day.
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Old age is like walking through a Grimm forest in a dark night; branches whip the face; unseen carnivores roar; pits give way underfoot; trees fall with a crack; and somewhere ahead on the path, waiting in the gloom, is the slough of despond
You would think, by now, Santa Claus must have been permanently stuck in one of the millions of chimneys he has climbed down?
