On Turning 60

On Turning 60

So you’re 60. What’s the big deal, already? Enough is enough on the subject. Well…you try it and just let me know if it’s not. Unlike 50, you know for certain that you’ve lived more than half your life…although…people are living longer these days. Jane Pauley says someone is actually alive on earth who will live to be [...]

Soul’s Garden

From the distance, the limbs layered with maple leaves look like the tree's heavy overcoat. Up close, just a breath of air, a bird's wings and each leaf flutters in independence. How stately and majestic the tree stands in its new summer attire. It wears its age well as unseen life strengthens it—leaf to limb, trunk to root to depths of earth [...]