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“You know, I used to think, ‘Life is great, but people suck,’ but now I’ve had to learn the opposite, ‘Life sucks, but people are great.’”
sometimes graffitied onto signs, presumably by superannuated
Most of all he loved the fall The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods Leaves floating in the trout streams And above the hills, the high, blue, windless skies Now he will be a part of them forever
The elemental “faith” in life I used to possess is completely gone, to the extent that I now carry the built-in assumption that whatever I used to do was probably wrong (it didn’t “work,” after all), and thus every little element of my former life, behavior, interests, and habits, was up for re-examination.
a dry brain in a dry season.” (That’s “Gerontion,”
