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#9 - Growing younger toward death

#9 - Growing younger toward death

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Nico Olivieri
Dec 05, 2020
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Our faces would fall away
until we, growing younger toward death
everyday, would gather all our flaws in celebration

to merge with them perfectly,
impossibly, wedded to our essence,
full of silence from the carver’s hands.

- from “The faces at Braga” by David Whyte

I was in my early twenties. I remember the blue sky reflected on the calm waters of the lake. Th…

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