“I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde
I ran across this quote and love the combination of truth and irony. I find, and think this was at least one of Wilde’s points, that age, if I am paying attention and am humble enough to entertain the thought, has a way of revealing to me what I don’t know – and I don’t know a lot. Thankfully, age also brings with it an acceptance of that lack of certainty that youth so despised. That is, I find that age seems to be accompanied by a willingness to embrace the lack of certainty and knowledge, a willingness to, as Iris Dement sings, “let the mystery be.”
It occurs to me... 