Getting old is a wild process It can be difficult, challenging, humbling, frustrating, exhausting, or sheer joy.

It’s a complex blending process of unlikely mixtures of dreams, hopes, some sorrows and a lot of joy framed in laughter with the best memories over time.

Yeah, that getting old stuff can be transformed into whatever happens whenever a lot of hope, hard work, patience, love, prayer, a drop of stubbornness tempered by faith and spirit are combined with triple doses of chance, irony, determination, love grace and the oddest mixtures of whatevers to arrive whenever.

It is a demanding process that requires more than you think and or less than you hoped for or visa versa.

It can wear you out and at the same time ignite passions that birth dreams.

Its a process that can bring much joy and strength. Now imagine that random mix of crazy wild variables tossed over time and carried by some wild winds that happen wherever and whenever God be.

Can I get an Amen?

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.