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Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been associated with worship becomes holy in itself, and self-perpetuating, always built upon the foundation of mingled awe and attraction which the unknown has for the mind of man.
The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.
People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.
Little I ask
And that little is not granted.
There are few crumbs
In this world any more.
When I dream, I am ageless.
There is something dangerous about mirrors ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.
