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Surely this is one of the positive gifts of old age – the appreciation and enjoyment of quietness. That saying from an elderly sage – ‘sometimes I sits and thinks; sometimes I just sits’ – is how it is for many of us. You can have an active life and the days are filled – at whatever age – but then at the end or in the middle of the day, for us older people, you find yourself moving into an interior world that belongs only to you. And you are quiet, as you contemplate your being and the beauty