Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only to themselves, and get self-righteous and censorious. And they (I mustn't.)
I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life ...
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
