#584: Age, Regrets, and Reality

Thinking with T.S. Eliot.

“Only here, in God, will we discover the font of youthfulness, the ‘second childhood’ of love and laughter which the wise will eventually grow into.” So I wrote a few weeks back while arguing that meeting God is the only consolation for the narrowed, constricted possibilities that come from aging. More time will never suffice: what we want is love and r…