The old schoolyard
The crowd of people that surround you at school – friends, enemies, classmates, teachers – who once you knew so well, or thought you did anyway. What happened to them over the next sixty years?
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anxiety
Dropping like flies
People keep dying in their seventies, like runners in a marathon falling by the wayside, in sight of the finish line.
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All change
After cancer, and the chemo, you keep searching your body for changes, any change at all seems a bad omen.
Drunkard’s walk
Life is full of incidents and accidents, and the occasional cunning plan gone horribly wrong.
Dry gulch
We ride through the dry canyons of the desert of old age on a horse with the name Despond, waiting, at every moment, for a deadly ambush.
Out of body experience
When you are young your mind and body are inseparable, the latter just a machine which, without having to think about it, carries out the mind’s wishes. The two are fused together, moving through life as a single unit, a horse and carriage. When we are old the mind and body separate from each other,
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Or knitting
When you have a terminal illness, or are getting very old (same thing), people say you should make the most of the time you have left. But how do you decide, of the thousand and one things you could do, which is the right one? You wouldn’t want to be on your death bed thinking
Slow moving though
I sometimes call the garden hose the orange-headed long green grass snake because … Summer.
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Face seems familiar though
You spend the first half of your life learning thousands of people’s names and the second half gradually forgetting them.
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He who laughs last
Laughter is the best medicine if you have something to laugh about and don’t have anything wrong with you.
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