For Many Of Us, The Curtain Had

The Story Of My Recent Life.' I Like That Phrase. It Makes More Sense Than 'the Story Of My Life', Because We Get So Many Lives Between Birth And Death. A Life To Be A Child. A Life To Come Of Age. A Life To Wander, To Settle, To Fall In Love, To Parent, To Test Our Promise, To Realize Our Mortality- And In Some Lucky Cases, To Do Something After That Realization.

Aging Is Not Just Decay, You Know, Its Growth.

You Can Find Something Truly Important In An Ordinary Minute.

There Are Many Things In My Life That I Wish I Could Take Back. Many Moments I Would Recast.

She Loved Me Coming And Going, At My Worst And At My Best. She Had A Bottomless Well Of Love For Me.