Growing older - added: Tue, Apr 15 12:32 PM
I turned 60 last June at my daughter's wedding in Mendicino, CA. Since then I have been searching for an appropriate sense of identity with this changing body in a culture that does not value age nor wisdom. I make woven shawls, and I joked with some shop ladies about beginning "The Shawl Initiation" when one turns 60. I don't want to wear a red hat. That poem was about a women wanting to be excentric and unique. Now everywhere I go, I see women wearing a uniform! Just not my thing. -Cardinarla