[dar-list] You're Aging Well

[Sheldon Wong]

I was surprised to read this, considering who wrote it...



Some time ago I was driving from Santa Fe to Sundance - taking back roads 
only - when
I came on some cattle wandering along ahead of me, headed by a woman in a 
rusty rusted red
pick-up.  Because of having to slow down I had time to gaze around and 
think.  I focused on the
back of the head and shoulders of the woman in the truck.  She had a 
ponytail and a bandana
cinching up her blonde hair.  She periodically waved a tanned arm outside 
the drivers open
window directing and yelling instructions to a couple of cowboys riding 
alongside the course.

I thought, she has wonderful energy--youthful and spirited.  I imagined a 
young girl 16 or 17
schooled on ranch life taking on the responsibilities of older brothers.

Finally, as they all cleared and I passed I saw her face.  It was of a woman 
in her 60's, wizened by the rigors of weather
and hardship.  As she looked at me and smiled, her wrinkled and burrowed 
brow still bore an innocence of a time gone
by.  I thought, when did that moment happen, that moment when she passed 
from youth to old age?  Is she aware of
the moment?  Of this Passing?  Did she know?  Do any of us?

--Robert Redford

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