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Aging is not for the faint of heart.
One day, you wake up and realize — youth has quietly slipped away.
But it didn’t leave alone.
It took with it your insecurities, your rush to please,
your fear of not being enough.
And in its place?
It left you with something stronger:
A slower pace, but a steadier step.
The wisdom to say goodbye without fear.
The grace to cherish those who choose to stay.
The power to be you, unapologetically.
Aging isn’t about losing — it’s about letting go.
It’s about learning to accept, to release, and to truly see:
That beauty was never just in the mirror…
It lived in every story, scar, and silent strength we carried within.
Aging is a gift. Wear it with dignity.
inspired by Meryl Streep
Well beside waking up with a
bad hair day, I did laundry, went to two grocery stores, the drive through post office to mail a return, came home made brunch, brioche toast with cream cheese, sliced tomatoes, lemon pepper &orange juice. I went down a bunch of rabbit holes for today's blog. While I was reading, a found a new word, like a gift! Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive patterns or images in random stimuli, especially when the stimulus is visual, such as seeing faces in clouds or a tree stump.

It's a psychological phenomenon where the brain fills in missing information and creates a recognizable image or pattern from something ambiguous. Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia is extremely common and not rare. It's a normal human tendency to perceive patterns or meanings in random or ambiguous stimuli, often seeing faces in inanimate objects. TMI: When we visited Valley of Fire State Park I turned into a 5 year old, pointing out dogs, a rabbit, all sorts of images in the rock formations.
2 comments:
Again, Jacki, I really enjoyed today's blog. From the start to the end (or do you say ending?). I love how positive it is and how encouraging. That's something I really need sometimes and I so often find it here. Thank you so much, Jacki, you don't know what a gift you are to me.
Thanks always, Elenor. We say beginning to end most often, but start to end works as well. Thank you for confirming what I thought was a better blog. You are a treasure to me.
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