Forty-Nine Is on the Edge of Fifty

April 12, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is health.

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A number poem about handling the aging process:

Forty-nine is on the edge of fifty,

Offering a glimpse of flinty age.

Reason says, of course, he's in his forties,

Too youthful – and too young – to turn the page.

Yet life must amble on from stage to stage.

Now his spirit seems quite hale and hearty --

Infinite, in fact, though it engage

No less in time than his well-tended body,

Each requiring care, sustained and sage.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Health

4/8: Give Your Pain a Bit of Gratitude

4/9: Thirty-Eight Is Running for Her Life

4/10: When Life Becomes a Sea of Pain

4/11: Grace Comes with a Patina of Pain

4/12: Forty-Nine Is on the Edge of Fifty