Forty-Five Is Wiser than Before

November 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is The Gifts of Life, in honor of Thanksgiving, which this year is celebrated on Thursday, November 28.

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A number poem about the gift of acceptance:

Forty-five is wiser than before,

Old enough, perhaps, to know himself.

Reason needs experience to see

That truth is far more likely “and” than “or.”

Yet most prefer their options off the shelf.

For it’s not easy to traverse the gulf

In between the will and what must be.

Vast though it may seem, eventually

Each humbled soul succumbs to love and awe.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Gifts of Life

11/25: Sixty-Seven’s in Her Golden Years

11/26: Forty-Five Is Wiser than Before