Recipe Of Age - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Take all the years of your life and pour them into a huge kettle of memories from the past.
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.
Place kettle on the slow fire of hope and stir slowly with the ladle of humility.
Add a heaping cupful of faith.
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.
Add smidgen of regret and a sip of sadness to keep mixture from becoming overly sweet.
Spice mixture with a few dreams for tomorrow.
Let cook and before serving sprinkle with the dust from a few old rainbows.