Growing Old

When there are fewer winters ahead than behind

Image credit: National Gallery

Many years ago when I had the amazing good fortune to be lugging a heavy pack up and down the dreary Welsh mountains among over two hundred youthful hopefuls and under the watchful gaze of the directing staff, I was told “the mind gives up before the body.” Back then it was true. Most people binned it because they were overwhelmed by the magnitude of the challenge…