Life Perspective

On Perspective, Late in the Day

A few things that look different from this side of sixty

October 2023 · 5 min read

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From this side of sixty, several things look different. Urgency, for one, has thinned. So has the wish to be understood by everyone.

rom this side of sixty, several things look different. Urgency, for one, has thinned. So has the wish to be understood by everyone.

What has thickened, instead, is gratitude — for ordinary mornings, for friends still answering the phone, for the body still willing to walk to the gate and back.

Perspective, it turns out, is mostly a matter of subtraction. You stop carrying what you no longer need to carry.

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