When you put your palm on my knee, I see a new line on your hand
Like the one on your face, or the grey that will hide in your hair.
But I'll tell you: what is old is new.
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One day we wake up the same age as my mom and dad were - back when they had a dog, two kids, and a home.
The next day I hope to be the age of my Mimi.
I want you to be too.
With air in your left lung. A beat next to your ribs. A song that your body will hum with each day that we go on.
To be this: not dead.
Our life can defy time for one more song.
So I will tuck the grey hair by your ear and hold the age in your hand. I wish to stay like this. Day by day, in love even now.
And I'll tell you: what is old is new.
Book Club Challenge Winners
This Challenge was particularly enjoyable for us as judges. It allowed us to sit around and discuss our own books that we cherish, the ones that changed us. Was it because they were perfectly written? Or because it was the book we needed at that point in our lives? And what does perfectly written even mean? For whom is it perfect? And, being big readers, as so many of our Creators are, we know that the more you read, the more deeply you are affected by all sorts of books, and suddenly you are thrown this way and that, moved like a leaf on a stream by all the incredible books you read, and it's hard to pick just one book.
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I love this! Great work!
This is really beautiful and profound. Love it 💙Anneliese