Dickinson on aging
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought." Emily Dickinson
We are all stumblers, and the beauty of life is in the stumbling - in trying to become more graceful as the years go by. #theroadtocharacter
— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) April 15, 2015
This should drive me back to one of Horace's Odes. Sic fluunt annes labuntur is the way I remember it. I wonder how close that is to what Horace actually wrote.