Just after Sian’s mother died her neighbour remarked to me “Old age is not for sissies”. It is true that we face challenges of ageing as our bodies decline. I am certainly aware of such a decline in my body and physical functions. However, as I have got older I have become less anxious than I was in youth and feel freer to express my experience of the world through my gentle art.
In our garden we have a very old beech tree. Yesterday I added this:
