Grow Old Along With Me (Home Ground #28)
Bozeman, Montana
2024
The full quote on this sundial is the familiar saying “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” We bought this sundial 40 years ago or so. At that much more tender age, it was really beyond my ability to seriously consider the implications of that phrase. But now, in hindsight I can see that it’s been mostly true for us and I expect that to continue to be the case for a while. Like this sundial and the stand it’s sitting on, the Fashion Queen and I have seen and continue to experience our share of physical deterioration. But unlike the sundial we are fortunate to be able to have experienced–and continue to experience–many increasingly positive non-physical aspects of existence. That will all end someday as is inevitably so, but in the meantime we will carry on the sundial’s command to the greatest extent we can.