Old Before Her Time

In vintage photos everybody always looks old, even when they're not.  Partly I think it was the photography itself.  But largely it was likely that life was harder in many ways back then and people didn't live nearly as long as we do now.  People were hardened, early on.

About myself, I have to report that life has been getting easier as I've aged -- certainly not physically, but in most other ways.  I am recovering, or rediscovering, my more childlike self.  I am a woman of substance (internal substance, which is the only kind that truly matters), growing younger in spirit as I age.