Tag: Aging

• May 31, 2012

  Our graying hair

  I have gray hairs. I have long hair. How long will it be before I have gray hair? I long for a radiant woman whose hairs are also gray. I see her long hair and her dark eyes and I crave for this being. I see her skin and I crave for her. How long…
• April 28, 2012

  ‘My sad smile corrects her’

  Joan’s PET scan came back negative. The doctors don’t know what the spot on her lung is. Maybe just a scar. Joan turned 89 the week before last. Today she said, “Eight-year-olds are such a marvel. They see and say so much.” We drank champagne on her birthday and, with her two sons and also…
• February 23, 2012

  ‘I fear I am becoming an old man already…’

  I fear I am becoming an old man already. I keep a spare tissue wedged down in the two finger nook of my pocket. Sometimes it is crisp from use or age, and when I am hard up I do not think twice of tearing off a jagged piece of toilet paper from the half-used…
• January 18, 2012

  Being arrogant got me halfway…

  “To live an examined life is to make a self-portrait.” –Robert Nozick, The Examined Life Being arrogant got me halfway to where I am today. Becoming humble got me the rest of the way. Being humble put me onto a different way. But arrogance, strange to say, was a saving grace for a young boy…
• January 4, 2012

  ‘The nature of a good marriage is actually very simple’

  “Call no man blessed until he has died.” –Solon For about a year, I’ve been having weekly conversations over email with an older man. We’ve been talking about living and dying, literature and philosophy, ethics and science. He’s become someone whom I admire. During a recent exchanged, I asked him about the nature of a…