Monday, November 14, 2011

30 Things I'm Thankful For: Day 14

Grey hairs.  Some of them actually earned.(Here with my friend Balzac at the Rodin museum...)

Experience: some call it the school of hard knocks.

I'm thankful for experience that has taught me patience and perspective. They are my best hope for peace.  "Experience keeps a dear school," said Ben Franklin, "yet fools will learn in no other."
The trouble with studying in the school of experience is you never graduate.

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