Ustas

we add to the pile yearly

                                   You are now entering the Land of Ustas.

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There’s a word I didn’t know I needed until it showed up one morning, bold as brass, riding along with my coffee breath: ustas. You may know them by their full, common names, “used to’s”, but that’s entirely too formal for the volume we seniors carry around. So, I’ve shortened it to ustas, because frankly, at our age, saving syllables is the closest thing to cardio some of us get.

“Growing older is mostly just discovering how many things you used to do without noticing you did them.” ~joe miller