It takes humility to accept the aging of the body and grace to welcome it.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The man who feeds the jays on Corliss Street came out with his cane today, and he has never used a cane. He stood at the bottom step a long while before he took it, the way I watch a branch before I trust it. I used to think the body simply reported the news and the mind had no say in the matter; I was younger and my feathers were better. It takes humility to accept the aging of the body and grace to welcome it, and I have no idea yet where the second one comes from. He got down the step and laughed at himself, alone, with nobody watching but a bird. The seed went out the same as always.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- You walk differently when you walk in the world than when you walk past it.
- The brain is a bundle of nerves.
- Count double the thoughts that precede your actions, half the ones that follow.
- When people say they want to feel better, they usually mean they want to feel less.
- What is spoken barely hints at what is shuttered in.
- If you give a reason for what you’re doing, you’re doing it for a different reason.