Getting Older: The Pursuit of Hippiness

It's my birthday week.  Self-image is not just a battle with weight and magazines.  But also with conventional ideas of what it means to get older.  The body is a gift.  But we are more than our bodies.  We are the stillness within us.  You can communicate deeply even with someone with dementia.  Even after losing the ability of speech.  We can connect without words.  We don't "lose" anything when we age.  We are infinite.