Some changes have been sublime and delicate; others have been weighty and unsettling. And it is true that with every passing year, there is a fading need to "know". The task becomes less about a quest for acknowledge, and more about tapping into the intelligence of a profoundly edifying internal root system: seeking your own center, your own voice, your own counsel. And contrary to what popular culture tells us, mindful "self-centeredness" enables us to be more fully accessible and empathetic to the needs and well-being of others. 

 

As Hugh Leavell states in his essay, Healthy Self-Centeredness, "The balanced self does not insist on universal predominance, but maintains his own center and lives from that place. He is at home within his subjectivity, mindful of others but filtering all perceptions through a lens uniquely his own."

 

And, without doubt, there is only one way we arrive at such balance and 

awareness; via the inexplicable and ever-changing passage of time.