Seeds Over Saplings
Age gracefully. Who values this phrase? I have no inkling for others’ opinions, but for the span of my 40+ years youth has been more widely valued. Ignore the perennial pursuit of women both to accentuate and prolong their youthful enticements (fashion, make up, diets, etc). These things do not reflect how one ages but the years of fertility and heightened femininity, a relatively narrow window in time beyond which the odds decrease for securing a husband and bearing children. Age gracefully. The hyper intellectual asks in response, “what’s its opposite? What is it to age disgracefully?” When you follow the themes of pop musicians with the staying power to last many decades, you can see distilled patterns of average people. For example Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss, that vaudevillian rock band from the seventies. They were as much a raucous storyline as rock 'n’ roll musicians (and they did produce some quality stuff). Fast forward four decades and yo