Posts Tagged ‘aging’

Maybe There’s A Reason We Associate Wisdom With Age

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

I’m leaving the title off of this until the end–read it first.
Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and [...]

A Man Turns 34

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Note: I will deny the entire contents of this post if my daughter ever finds it later in her life and confronts me with it. I expect you all to back me up in those denials.
So, how did I welcome in 34th birthday? Recall that I was spending it in Australia.
Before I get into the [...]