After-Orts #28

. . . what we call magic is the eternal instinct of the human mind to mistake the boundaries of its understanding for the boundaries of reality . . .
     — Maria Popova, in a piece about hummingbirds,
https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/05/07/sy-montgomery-the-hummingbirds-gift/
 

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There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
     — George Santayana 

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
     — Montaigne 

both, quoted by George Will, What Turning 80 Teaches Me, in the Washington Post

     also from the same article: “In 1941, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 64.8 (today, 77.8), only 6.8 of the population was over 65 (today, 16 percent),...”