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Gary Spangler's avatar

I love this quote by David Bowie! If I read this correctly, as I ease on past 55 (😳) and lose elastin with each new day, am I also becoming more the person I should have been? I hope he didn’t think crepey skin, bruising when struck with a feather, and skin like tissue paper is what I should have always been!😳 With the rambunctious life I lead when younger, I would have needed a port for regular transfusions!

I use toasted sesame seed oil in some stir fry dishes. Does unrefined oil become “toasted” by virtue of a frying pan and low heat? Repurposing the oil could spare you the feeling of preparing for a greased pig contest when Thalia goes overboard with her slathering!🤔😬

ON BECOMING

I used to think that turning 30

Would mean I had grown up

Now I see that turning 30

Just meant I was a pup!

Now that I am 30 doubled

Plus a couple more

Then will I be a wise dog

If I live 30 more?

😬

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3musesmerge's avatar

A poem! 🎉

Thank you!

And thanks also for sneakily sending me off to the edit button. 😂 You are the best!

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Gary Spangler's avatar

☺️😐

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Bobby Kountz's avatar

#Bravo Spangler! 😁

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Bobby Kountz's avatar

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

~ David Bowie

For me, 👆🏼THIS #QUOTE 👆🏼is the #Truth!

I am becoming... 😎 I am #Grateful

🙏🏼🕊️🙏🏼

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3musesmerge's avatar

I kind of cringed at the quote’s word “should” because I’ve really been working to stop should-ing on myself.

The journey is what life is all about?

I’d say that I would not have the depth and substance I have now without all of the many phases and versions of Gail that I have experienced. I wouldn’t give any of them back.

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Karen DeBonis's avatar

Good point, Gail. Maybe a better version is: Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you were created to be. Hmm. Nope. At every age, we are who we are, meaning whether we are completely realizing all of our gifts and potential, we have opportunities to learn life's lessons.

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Bobby Kountz's avatar

#Ditto “I simply substitute “could” nowadays... 😉

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