Nancy Harris Mclelland

​ This is one of my very favorite quotes: “Even after the worst storm the birds sing and so should we. God wants us to be happy.” Rose Kennedy was quoted as saying this. She died at 104. A lovely poem by E.B. White: Youth and Age This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the melancholy time of not knowing., This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going....

Virginia Woolfe: “The compensation of growing old [is] that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained — at last! — the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence, — the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it around, slowly, in the light.”

She thinks of herself taller, younger, thinner, and still a beginner, a doer, desiring to play parts that are risque, even a wee bit...