A Regular feature of Elder Life Planning News
“The aging
process is a part of most of our lives, and it remains one we try to ignore until it seems
to pounce upon us. We evade all its signals. We stay blandly unprepared for some of its
obnoxious effects, even though we have coped with the cracked voices and puzzling glands
of our emerging natures, and have been guided no matter how clumsily through budding
love-pains, morning sickness, and hot flashes. We do what our mentors teach us to do, but
few of us acknowledge that the last years of our lives, if we can survive to live them
out, are as physically predictable as infancy’s or those of our full flowering. This
seems impossible, but it is true.”
M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992), U.S. culinary writer
and autobiographer.
Source:
Columbia
Encyclopedia.
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