Might As Well Celebrate
Every morning I recite these Five Reflections:
I am of the nature to grow old; there’s no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill health; there’s no way to escape having ill health.
I am of the nature to die; there’s no way to escape death.
All that I have and everyone I love are of the nature to change; there’s no way to escape being separated from them.
My actions are my only true belongings; I can not escape the consequences of my actions; my actions are the womb from which I am born; whatever I may do, for good or for ill, of that I will fall heir.
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I won’t be posting tomorrow because I’ll be taking my mom to have cataract surgery. That’s us in the photo above, taken in 2008, at Fitz’s, where we went to celebrate my birthday. I was 58 and had orange hair back then; she was 79 and remembered birthdays. Things change.