Hello Dear ones,
A favorite author of
mine, Gail Caldwell has just published a new book that looks interesting. It’s called “New Life, No Instructions.” The title prompted me to think about life and
growing old and the challenges faced. We need a book titled “Old Age, Instructions Included, Print Too Small.”
Darn. That title won’t fly. The publisher would shoot it down in a
nanosecond for nobody is old today. Old
is an unfashionable word. Things are
gently used or pre-owned or vintage but they are definitely not old.
When you say you’re
sixty, someone is sure to announce sixty is the new fifty and it follows that
seventy is the new sixty and on and on.
So much for growing old. Its
plainly not au cou-rant. The mid life
crisis has been written about ad nauseam. But Old.
No one wants to do OLD.
Picture a book on old
being on the best sellers list. As they
say…you’re only as old as you feel.
Well, sorry but some days I feel old.
Some days are not “the best that’s yet to be”. Some days are filled with
challenges. Teeth decay, backs wear
down, eyes dim. Kids forget to
call. Email acts up….again. And texting.
Well, let’s not go there shall
we? Lets simply say that growing old is
adapting constantly to this crazy ever changing world of ours. Wish it would all slow down but that’s not
going to happen.
So we get our teeth
filled and new glasses and maybe do our hair one shade lighter and buy a snazzy
red purse and move on. Life doesn’t
wait. Beautiful old broads are a brave bunch
of women. After all haven’t we made it
this far along life’s path? Onward.
That’s all well and
good but I can’t get this new herbal liquid soap open. I’ve twisted and yanked and pounded and
pressed. What…you say there are
directions printed on the side of the bottle.
Oh I see them but the print is pixel sized. Okay…okay…I’ll get my magnifying glass
because the prints too small.
Pondering on all this
brings up one of my favorite and TRUE
sayings
THE LARGE PRINT GIVETH and the small print taketh away
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