Where the living is easy
Biographies give me the comforting feeling that life is arranged in patterns, has structure, can be understood rationally, and will turn out all right in the end.
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Balance
Can’t decide if the pleasure of finding that someone older than you is still alive outweighs the finding that someone younger than you is now dead.
The red Porsche
You will find it is best, all things considered, to get your mid-life crisis out of the way as early as you can. Old age crises are not a pretty sight.
Relativity
Time goes slowly – waiting for Xmas; sitting in a dentist’s chair; at a family party; waiting for exam results; waiting for biopsy results, but it never goes more slowly than when you contract Shingles
But he survived
A magpie just hit the window – thump! – an awful whack. Flying along with your family in the morning light, singing, not a care in the world, when suddenly, unseen, an obstacle nearly breaks your neck. Much like the course of human life.
Learn to suck eggs?
So, you can grow new brain cells even when you are ninety? But what are you going to do with them?
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