Lordy I feel solid in the world, heavy, massive in the sense that I exert a gravitational pull on people and objects around me. When I was young I orbited and bounced off things; now the world comes to me in many ways.
Finite Resources I went to breakfast with my father this morning. Like most men perched on the early cusp of stately middle age, I am more aware of the reality of my parents' mortality every time I see them.