Thistles
Anne Lamott just lays me out every time. I’m sharing this excerpt from her Washington Post column about aging.
“Thistles for younger people are to be avoided at all costs, for obvious reasons, but when you have slowed down, they can be enjoyed, because you won’t be running into or leaping over them. There is beauty in old stalks, even when they are us: It’s tough and lovely to be alive. Thistles in the spring are so pretty. I love their springiness, the power of the breezy, soft purple fibers, and then in the summer the kind of Elizabethan glory of those ruffs around their necks. In autumn, the wind blows away all the fluff — the seed pods — leaving the spikes and stalks, which dry up and fall over, as will we all.” ~ Anne Lamott
read the whole column here
