Awareness Stories

Sisyphus

16 Sep 2012

From Morning Songs: Getting Older

reflecting on getting older

  I’m getting older because I haven’t died and wiser because I seldom worry or shake my head at foolishness. I walk much slower now because my legs are stiff and know it makes no sense to hurry. Getting older like the trees I share this land with and the...

Sisyphus

15 Sep 2012

Growing Younger

thoughts on getting younger and not older

How can I be my age when in my heart I’m forty and not the man in the mirror with wrinkled skin, white hair growing thin, eyes not as blue as I remember them. How can this be? Why this alarm to realize there’s two of me— the man out there that people see...