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46 Reflections on a Life Half Over
I keep hearing a voice in my head that says, “The second half of your life doesn’t have to look anything like the first half of your life. The first half was bound; the second half is free.” Free, free, ever more free. Free from my own distorted thinking, free from any lingering shame and fear and resentments, free from expectations. This what I lo... See more
Sari Botton • This is 54: Author Elizabeth Gilbert Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
it’s my birthday!
1.
2. one foot in the grave one foot in the rave
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4. time fries
5. BUTTer
6. it rarely goes according to plan
7. OK, not bad, sometimes great
8. don’t look at your shadow when there is a sunset to wa... See more
instagram.comi see it dripping all over me
covered in transparent yellow
sweet like mango
sticky like an addiction
the sugar rush it gives
they smell it from miles
they come over me.
finding me through my shedding skin
a flying chameleon of emotions glued with wings i made myself.
transmuted into a be. ing of person.
they used to hate bees
cause they are all women
but now
... See moreNothing looks the way I thought it would look. Some of it has been more delightful than I expected, much of it has been more heartbreaking than I ever planned for — or thought I could survive. Yet here I am, living out the story that I am, at best, co-creating in collaboration with mysterious and invisible forces. It has been, at every turn, intere... See more