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Already You Are Old

From the November 2020 Print Edition

Already you are old, and I am too.Let’s join old age, embrace the time we’ve found,and make of winter’s shiver warmer groundand milder spring, as much as we can do. A man is never old who does not knowhe is—he shifts his course at the year’s new seams,weaves new thread into his cloth . . . . Continue Reading »