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At Sixty

Sixty is no eschatological age, but a breathing pause after a good run. Sixty is no end and no beginning, but a hyperbolic notwithstanding, a parable of sowing and reaping, a metaphor of memories. Too early for farewells, too late for apprehensions, less heroic than at twenty. No, ya no me malogro, ni nadie me quita lo bailado. Twice thirty is twice lived and somehow doubly young, full of projects still and appetite, free of many certainties, while cherishing…

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Skiing

Skiing is a mode of living: Life is now, an affirmation, time in motion and elation. Carpe diem ! Life is skiing. Skiing is a state of being: happy trance in blinding light or blanket mists, on perfect runs or frozen pistes : a drugless high, a game of chance. The mountains are alive with skiers striving strenuously for citius, altius, fortius — not pausing for the vast, majestic views, just racing on — and not arriving…. Reckless in…

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