361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin)
The History of Literature
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When You See Me Walking Stumbling
When you see me walking stumbling, that's poignant. It meansi the meaning simple enough that i know what it means. And yet there are surprises there too. Young person studies the older person, trying not to stare but fascinated. What is it like to have those old bones, that shuffling set of weary muscles? Tired don't mean lazy, she says. That's an assumption we don't make of the truly old. Maybe the near old, someone in their fifties or sixties.
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