We seldom long for a future where our bodies are less but our spirits and insight are more. Yet, that future is there.
This is why I wrote “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador,” to share the wisdom of the elders. I have learned so much from the elders & it is almost my time to be an elder (or maybe in some eyes, I already am!). ;-)
A young American woman goes to war-torn El Salvador: tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Originally posted on Live & Learn:
They just look like old men. And because of that, they are seen as elderly rather than wise. But there is a wisdom that comes with age. The old have walked the path we tread. They have seen the landscape through which we are traveling. They have felt our passions and known our dreams, though perhaps in different shape and in different measure. In their eyes we can see our future. In our eyes they can see their past. In some fundamental way, they know the place where we are going.
The look I saw in the eyes of both those older men in the past two days was a look of deep compassion and understanding. They understood something about me, just as I understand something about the hopeful, headphone-wearing twenty-year-olds in that gym. It is knowledge unspoken, but it is knowledge, nonetheless. They also know that few will seek…
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