Holding On - Aug. 22, 2026
I stand back and take a good look in the mirror At my age, didn’t my grandparents look older than this? when I was 5, they seemed timeworn already tilting and slow, wrinkled, gray and fragile, patting my short blond mop I look closer and okay, there are gray and creases with signs of decay on my face and body but I think my 74 is younger thinking and acting than there’s was, with more playfulness, snappier thinking and a greater worldly awareness and yet, I do find my