you’re 23 and you learn rosemary kennedy was lobotomized at 23 and you’re like my god she was barely an adult. then you’re 27 and you’re like holy hell amy winehouse was just starting her life. and then, presumably, you reach 36 and you’re like christ alive marilyn monroe was only 36. and so on and so forth
you're 63 and you remember that Ruth Stout began no-till gardening at 63, and spent 33 years experimenting with the method, publishing books and articles. you're 64 and you recall that Sojourner Truth gave her famous extemporanious speech on suffrage and abolition at 64 years old, 9 years before the Civil War. you're 67 and you learn Grandma Gatewood first hiked the Appalachian Trail at 67 after getting lost on a section of it the previous year, and she hiked it again twice, as well as 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail. it is never to late. it is never too late. it is never too late.
