I M Perfect lady

Getting older feels odd, and then stagnant.  

The body is beginning to show its age – okay it has now for quite sometime; but I am seeing more old than just regular me, and yet the inside feels like Me unchanged.

The body now bruises with big bursts of color and I don't even remember how IT happened.  For it doesn't take much to color my skin.

My joints hurt less – with the less carbs I eat.

The lighter I am – the easier it is to navigate the things I do.

I am grateful there are not too many "old people" body issues with me yet.

I love that I love.

I love that I am loved and can accept it.

I love that I can feel love; and sorrow.

I love that my body can express itself.

My heart is free to be Me.

I am so very grateful that I have a beautiful circle of women who enjoy being outside and doing fun things.

It almost feels like I am in my second childhood.

Where there is more time to play and the responsibilities are being reduced each year.

Next year, I can retire.  

That will plunge me right back to age 4 – no school and no work – just play!

As the outside of me is showing its age, the inside of me is not.

I feel the same – but with a wider knowledge – experience has added volume to me.

Or color and intriguing details – like the finishing touches that make Art pop.

And it seems perfectly aligned that as my responsibilities are reduced, I get to play grandma.

We seem perfectly matched.  The childlike wonder is in us both. And, perhaps a slowing down and wanting to embrace the little things in life.  I am thinking the best grandmas are the ones whose little girl is eager to play once again!

Sometimes being a mom felt like I was "playing" mom. That I wasn't really old enough to be one. 

And, then other times it seemed like I had missed my childhood; for I was a second mother in my childhood home.

The only down side of getting old – is that there is less time to live.

Which makes it doubly important that you don't waste time – that you live this day, and this moment.

When I look backwards in my endless amount of photographs, it shows I am doing an excellent job of using my time with things I love.

I celebrate Me today. 

Who I am, what I have experienced and more, the bravery I have had to be Me.

Looking at all my pictures, getting old is so much fun.  Here is to another Year!  Let the Adventures begin!

You are as young as you feel inside.