Photograph by Deanna Templeton

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. 
Age has no reality except in the physical world.
The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.
Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say
that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. 
Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything,
but the alpha and omega.
An end in itself.

– Gabriel Garcia Márquez