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In the autumn of our lives

October 22nd, 2009

After a 12 day break from walking in the morning, I returned to experience the full colours of Autumn in the trees and on the grounds. I may not like the cold and wet but I do find the colours so much richer and I love it.

With my foot feeling better but my cold/flu not quite gone my lap times were really not very good. The mind however was in fine form and I thought about how we should make the twilight years of our lives like Autumn.

The barrenness of pre-birth (winter), the vitality of our youth (which according to the BBC report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8316498.stm ends at 45 - I wish) and the stability of our middle years (summer) all need to feed into the Autumn of our lives.

This will be the time when we drop the leaves of our experience and nourish the earth for the quiet of winter and the preparation of the new birth of the new generation. If we have wasted our earlier times, not fed our experiences over the course of our lifetimes, then we leave poisonous leaves on the ground.

May you find the balance.

[First published on my Talking2Myself blog on specified date]