I had a couple of interesting experiences this week helping my daughter photograph several elderly women. Two she went to by herself, and two I went with her. Each woman radiated joy and interest in what was going on and in life in general. Each woman had gone through plenty of physical problems and because medicine can sometimes help patch us human beings up, they then went on with their lives. There is a saying from Rabbi Hillel who lived about a thousand or more years ago " I walk, I fall down, I get up, meanwhile I keep dancing."
Of course, its not as easy as that.
All of us sink down at times, and depending on what has happened, on how much support we have from friends and family and community, on what our own internal resources are and what our spiritual beliefs are, we eventually get up and go on with our lives at our own timetable. We keep dancing.
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