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A note from Dr. Hendrix
This poem walks through six big decades of my life — the adjusting, the experimenting, the disciplining — each with its own weather. I wrote it because laying the decades side by side lets you see the shape of a whole life at once, and I found the view both humbling and oddly beautiful.
— Dr. Roger Hendrix · We share these stories so you can know the family behind GreenTeaHP.
Six decades have passed since my adjustment days
Filled with denying I wasn’t different from anyone else
Five decades ago have passed since my experimenting days
Filled with surfing, girls, some beer and being with everyone else
Four decades have passed since the time of disciplining myself for a thousand days
Filled with mastering a calendar, creating life like most everyone else
Three decades have passed since the breaking of barriers and soring high in those days
I was confident as I looked around for someone else
Two decades have passed, I have no need to compete today
I like my kids and their kids being themselves and no one else
One decade has past, my health intact and no longer counting the days
Classical music sounds right in my house, I have no need to talk about much else
One tenth of one decade has past I enjoy most days
I write my reflections, if I don’t I doubt it will be done by anyone else
One twelfth of one year has passed, I continue to marvel at my health these days
There’s nothing more to report about anything else
Today has been a good day
I sat and enjoyed the sun streaming in and not much else
Here I am
Love, there doesn’t need to be anything else