#growingold

[diogenesz2020portugal]

"To die: to sleep; No more..." (Shakespeare) Maravilhas de Lisboa Lisszabon csodái @prol_233 #velhice #growingold #🇵🇹 #streetartlisboa #lisboastreetart #BoaLisBoa #arteurbana #lisbonstreetart #lisboa #lisbon #lisbongraffiti #dream_dealer_lisboa #perdidoemlisboa #ilovelisbon #amotelisboa #lisbonflow #portugalflow #lisboncolors #fluxodelisboa #lisboacolorida #lisboamaravilhosa #ruasdelisboa  #lisbonflash #segredosdeLisboa #coresdelisboa #streetphotography #streetarthunter (helyszín: Mouraria, Lisboa, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CphUFCHoFsL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sheldonatts]

…it’s a new year… -I’ve earned deeper frown lines but I’m also earning some smile lines. -I’ve learned new ways to succeed and new ways to fail. -I feel very proud of myself and I’ve also let myself down spectacularly. -I’m trying to learn how to self love and extend forgiveness to one’s self. -I’m getting better at not chasing what I think is happiness but rather challenge myself to always find something present to be appreciative for. Life’s a journey…I’m much closer to 50 than 30 and I am forever thankful to make it this far and to know there’s more ahead 🙏🏽 Love you all 🙏🏽❤️ #growingold #greyhair #selflove #newyear #agingartist #selfreflection (at Winnipeg, Manitoba) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnaSGUEP1Cg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[greatpacificbooks]

Book For Sale ~ Art Fettig 1986 Only Hurts When I Frown Funny Happy Loving Life *Positive Living | eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/385318256073

#humor #wit #life #truth #irony #feelings #growingup #growingold #golden #ArtFettig #living #loving #humanexperiences #books #forsale

[thoughtsofamedic]

An Old & Humble Writer

I picked her up from her home. She had fallen. For a woman in her late 70s, she wanted to refuse taking an ambulance, but she had a rather big laceration to her leg, which would require stitches. This in addition to blood thinners, would mean she would need to be seen.

Anyway, we got to talking. We met her dog and her husband who were in the living room just keeping her company. She told me she was a writer. I asked if it would be anything I would know. She told me it was a blog, so I said I was happy to look it up and read it after. She had been in Public Relations, like me before I switched my career path during COVID.

The entire time we were with her was enjoyable. It happens rarely that we enjoy spending time with patients. We pick up citizens who are altered, in severe pain, in a panic, etc. so it is understandable that we are always trying to do our best with our time with patients. But she was different.

She had an elegance about her. A positive outlook. She told us of her travels, about her home out of state and how she came back to recover from a surgery. She didn't allow anything in her life to affect her love for live. She was kind. She was SO funny. She was gentle. I remember hoping that I would be like her when I aged.

This lady started talking to me like she had known me my entire life. But more than that, she saw that I had a passion for what I did. She noticed the little things I did to care for her, even though she was not in a life-threatening emergency. She said things like she saw right through me. And it all felt so comfortable, which usually doesn't happen to me at work.

So, we dropped her off and I cleaned the stretcher and prepared it for the next patient. I got back in the ambulance. As my partner finished up the paperwork, I started reading. She wrote about life. She wrote about love. She wrote about old and and all of the wonders that come with it.

I noticed that she stopped writing around the time of her surgery. I still check in every couple of weeks to see if there is anything new in her life.

It's those people that stay with you as a medic. The ones you learn something from. The people who see you for who you are, not having known you a day in your life.

[anitatad]

Methuselah... who's he?

Last weekend was a family weekend, where we all met at our house for a get together. We had a lovely time, and this adorable orchid was a gift and has taken up residence in my office. It has been making me smile every time I look at it… You may have noticed that I have been among the missing for the better part of this week. I haven’t been ill, even though sometimes I think I must be.…

[mindingmoi]

👶🏽👵🏽

[lifethroughtime]

28th~

1st bday in nz 💓

[andthesink]

Growing up is no fun!!

I was driving to work on a sunny morning when I saw some primary school aged children walking to school. They were filled with happiness and wonder, stopping to look and smell flowers, picking up rocks (to give to those important people in their lives, of course!) and skipping/dancing along. Further along I could see some high school aged teens walking along. Their heads were down, looking at the…

[graceatthemargins]

Selfies

I  took a selfie yesterday. And what did it really say? —– My wrinkle grown skin Sags. My skin stretches with age Not smiles. Jowls threaten to enhance This time lined face. —- Eyes dimmed see the effects of time, of hope, misplaced and violent attack, Searching through the lines, unveiled a cause for laughter and joyful climes and just like Mr Happy, the corners — of that kissed…

[relaxartworld]

📜 Growing Old — a poem by Matthew Arnold (subtitled) ✒️

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Matthew Arnold's "Growing Old" was written in the 1860s (when the poet was only in his 40s!).It is a dark meditation on aging, in which the speaker warns readers that old age is everything they fear it will be and nothing they hope it will be.

[quotesfond]

Quotes: Age Embrace the beauty and wisdom that comes with aging. Find inspiration in age quotes from people who have lived and learned.

[sheldonatts]

Life is a journey. Love yall #staystrong #positivevibes #selflove #lifelessons #growingold (at Winnipeg, Manitoba) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnukPRDAs1A/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chantalvdreijden]

Grow old, but always stay young at ❤... 😉 #growingold #ageing #oldfolks #youngatheart #portrait #portret #blackandwhite #blacknwhite #bnw #bw #bws #noir #monochrome #zwartwit #instabnw #lovebnw #lovephotography #photographer #photography #fotografie #fotograferen https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9-fCvj_Eu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dhandiani]

Today 11.12.2022 20:51 Indonesia time. Happy birthday to me...wish me all the best in everything. Then i remember one time i saw you in kitchen floor, lying...i tried to get in to the kitchen and want to ask why are you lying there...but i turn to the stairs and go home instead. The next day, I saw you, in the office room... concentrate in front of PC, as usual. I think you are fine, nothing to worry anyway. 

[helpful-ly]

CHASING YOUTH

We chase the fleeting echo of our youth, In serums, creams, in scalpels skin-deep, As we suspend the past under The sculptor’s blade. The wisdom gathered is expelled, discarded, Off of our skin because time is a shame. Each wrinkle sits where a minute once passed, On the way to answer your heart’s yearning For a long life, just a little more time. Did you not pray, that the death’s shadow Remains a stranger at your door?! If you are aging, it is because heaven said yes. You are spun of silver, so refined like gold. Time is not a curse Even when it makes a home on your face. It is a storage of the memories that you are, Of loves embraced, and tears that met your eyes. Let go of the chase, the yearning to rewind. Though time may steal your youth It gifts you a chance.

[cjb2014universe]

Seasons Greetings