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On Aging

Posted on May 22, 2005 by Jeff Grim

Poet Donald Hall on growing old, in his poem “Affirmation”:

“Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything.”

For we began with nothing and will leave with nothing to go on to worship our Creator.

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