Dickinson on aging
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought." Emily Dickinson
How do we celebrate our diminishment as we age? We "reject the world as ugly." @ParkerJPalmer on beauty: http://t.co/qy3yc4RmYj
— On Being (@Beingtweets) March 25, 2015
The link leads to Palmer's reflection and a beautiful poem on Remrandt's Late Self-Portraits by Elizabeth Jennings
...To the last
Experiment went on. You stared beyond
Your age, the times. You also plucked the past
And tempered it. Self-portraits understand,
And old age can divest,
With truthful changes, us of fear of death.
Look, a new anguish. There, the bloated nose,
The sadness and the joy. To paint's to breathe,
And all the darknesses are dared. You chose
What each must reckon with.