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People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

When I dream, I am ageless.

Little I ask
And that little is not granted.
There are few crumbs
In this world any more.

To a life that seizes
Upon content,
Locality seems
But accident.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

There is something dangerous about mirrors ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless.