The Present
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The Present
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A live read of the article "The Present" by Dr. Jeff Gardner.
To read the full article, visit https://hearthandfield.com/the-present
I turned fifty-seven this year. Not that there is anything remarkable about that. I am at that point in life where I no longer see the passage of time as a wondrous thing, but I don’t fear it either. I could be afraid of it; I have reason to. All of the men in my family one generation above me died by the age of sixty. My father and his two brothers lived hard-drinking, hard-driving lives, dying at ages sixty, fifty-eight, and fifty-nine. While I don’t smoke and only drink occasionally, being closer to sixty than fifty is sobering.
When I was in my thirties, during a particularly difficult time in my life . . .
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