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Older now, we can take in stride situations that years earlier would have left us at odds.

Sayings we dismissed as trite in our youth reappear now with new weight.

Our mantras serve as shorthand for a generous language we share.

Sun shining through rain. Source: Annita Sawyer

Will and I have discovered certain phrases that help us to make sense of our lives, enabling us to cope with what comes our way. I marvel at how now, in our 80s, we take in stride circumstances that years earlier would have made us tense and miserable and left us at odds. Those phrases have become a generous language we share.

Last week, driving to the local Cinemart to see La Bohème broadcast live from the Met, we encountered construction and a blocked-off road. The detour required a tricky tight

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