Growing older teaches us many things, but sometimes it also asks us to remember what we once knew so naturally - how to play, how to wonder, how to stay open to the world around us. There is a quiet kind of wisdom in innocence, and perhaps we spend much of our lives trying to find our way back to it.
Maybe growing young again is not about turning back time, but about softening into life as it is. Letting go of what we were told we had to become, and returning to the quieter truths that were there all along. The ones that remind us to question, to feel, to stay curious, and to keep our hearts alive.
Love, loss, friendship, nature, memory - they all shape us. They leave their marks, their ache, and their beauty. And maybe, in the end, a life well lived is not about holding on tightly, but learning how to love what is here, while we have it, and to gently let it go when the time comes.
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Featuring Harry Owen (Website - https://harryowen.co.za).
Filmed in Stellenbosch, South Africa
The poems read in this film are Harry’s own: Making It, He Ain’t Heavy, and Fall.
The closing lines are taken from Mary Oliver’s beautiful poem In Blackwater Woods.
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Enjoyed listening to Mr. Owen. I'm working on 88 now and I know that I have more miles behind me than ahead of me. I'm striving daily to be ready for the next life. After all, like the poet said, "Life is real, life is earnest and the grave is not it's goal," I believe God put us here to serve Him and make ready for that eternal life after death. That is my desire and I hope to inspire others to do the same. May all of you have a blessed day.
beautiful - thank you
Beautiful and Beautifully said. I'm 81 and it really made me think of all that I'm grateful for in my life. THANK YOU
Loved this, Mel. Thanks.
This was a very moving, thought-provoking video. As I approach 80, (I am 79 & 6months old) I have these moments where I ponder how good life has been to me and where do I go from here?
I'm turning 80 in a month, and this video really impacted me! A few tears of both joy for what is ahead and who I've become, and a few for the sadness of what I missed through the years and should have found sooner. Thank you, Mel.