GS, I have to agree with your observations pretty much exactly....these same transitions towards acceptance and "understanding" have occured in me...
There is still a lot I do not understand, but I will tolerate a lot more than in my 20's and 30's...I am more interested and less threatend than I use to be. We all mature chronologically, If we are in luck (moreso those we will live with) we get to grow too.
People are the best and worst show in town...
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There are three kinds of reader: a first who enjoys without judging,a third who judges without enjoyment,and one in between,who judges with enjoyment and enjoys with judgement; it is this reader who actually produces the work of art anew. - JW von Goethe
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