By Sister Joan Chittister
From The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
“I am luminous with age,” Meridel Le Sueur wrote. Her words give us pause, make us think, call us to the bar of judgment.
The truth is that older people tend to come in two flavors — the sour ones and the serene ones. The sour ones are angry at the world for dismissing them from the rank and file of those who run it and control it and own it and are not old in it. They demand that the rest of the...
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