Word Count:\u00a0 256<\/p>\n

To live life is to experience as much as it offers. Its beauty, its wonder, its majesty, its pain.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen meteor showers that crisscrossed the sky like celestial fireworks. I\u2019ve seen Northern Lights with their Christmasy red and green glow. The moon hide the sun and the sun hide the moon in earth\u2019s shadow. The wind reach down and pick giant oaks like bouquets. I\u2019ve heard hail hit the roof like the hooves of a reindeer and the rain powerwash windows till it seemed they would crack under stress. And I\u2019ve seen the glory of sunrise, the painted canvas of sunsets, each different in a spectacular way.<\/p>\n

In my lifetime I\u2019ve gone from mimeograph machines to lumbering copiers to home printers. Manual typewriters to Selectrics to keyboards to mice. I\u2019ve seen presidents sworn in and drive by in black motorcades that slid like a snake down Main Street. I\u2019ve seen royal weddings, men shot, the first steps on the moon on TV.<\/p>\n

And the births, the first cries of new life, the last breaths of some loved ones, the ravages of time in the eyes of the old.<\/p>\n

As time goes on, the less there is left to discover, and yet there are some things I\u2019ve time yet to see.<\/p>\n

I pack what I\u2019ll need and dress warm, for the March wind is still touched with the winter. I feel the excitement of the new. I\u2019ve never held a human heart in my hands, felt its warm beat in my palm. Tonight though, I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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