Recipe Of Age

• Love
• Laughter
• Common Sense
• Kindness
• Old Dreams
• Good Cheer
• Experience
• Patience
• Charity

1. Take all the years of your life and pour them into a huge kettle of memories from the past.
2. Add a large helping of love, a few old tears, a large portion of laughter, then spice with a sigh or two from other years.
3. Place kettle on the slow fire of hope and stir slowly with the ladle of humility.
4. Add a heaping cupful of faith.
5. Stir mixture with the spoon of experience and thicken with a few old dreams to give mixture just the right degree of nostalgia and simmer over slow fire of time.
6. Add smidgen of regret and a sip of sadness to keep mixture from becoming overly sweet.
7. Spice mixture with a few dreams for tomorrow.
8. Let cook and before serving sprinkle with the dust from a few old rainbows.

laughter, common sense, dreams, cheer, charity

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=317251 (may not work)