Senior Citizen House Guests. Welcome to the Living with Nature Home

Senior Citizen House Guests

Welcome to the Living with Nature Home

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Senior Rotarians from the US pose at the botanical garden with author and family.

Golden years well spent in travels abroad,

for these kindly guests in their senior years,

thousands of miles from home and country;

for us here, welcome in a thousand cheers.

Life opens at fifty, many people start anew;

retirement to Webster a re-definition indeed,

old and new generations in a single thread;

longevity's essence to our Creator we bid.

Peace a runabout of place and time, a cycle

interconnecting the famous French trilogy:

Liberte', Egalite', Fraternite' - as basic law

of universal unity, cooperation and harmony.

Trends "to see the world in a grain of sand,"

and a heaven in a wild flower," so Blake says,

ride on technology today, yet wanting still

of in situ experience, true sense and praise.

Home across boundaries of bond and race,

evasive yet eternal may be our yearning

to fill the missing link of a global community

with the seed you've sown in your coming.

Senior couple balikbayan with author's wife at the home art gallery

Schools of art, past and present, old a new;

in harmony to us natural artists in our view;

Lascaux to Sistine, Van Gogh to Amorsolo,

we simply feel blessed for we are a part, too.

Guest poses with childhood memorabilia

at the home museum.

A thing of beauty is a boy forever, sages say;

     live life truly with childhood forever;

like good wine aged to its fullest to the day

     it's offered as toast in joy and prayer. ~