The Signs

The palm of your hand.  The bottom of your feet.  The tops of your feet.  Your knees.  Your ankles.  Your neck.  Your elbows.  These are some of the places on our body's that the skin is pulled taut by nature.  You have natural give in the skin on other parts of your body, say the belly or the love handles.   And let's face it, time marches right across our faces, so that skin has more give than we'd like, too.  We know this.  We know it's coming and a lot of us do what we can to take care of ourselves so our body's can take care of us as we age.  Aging is a gift not all receive, so we can't forget it's a blessing.  I can loose sight of that fact when I'm complaining about looking tired when I feel alert & happy.  Then I realize it's the sagging of my eyelids starting to make me look permanently tired.  I tell myself "gurrrl, don't pick at ya'self, be happy!".  Besides, I have a lot of life left in me!  

But one of the signs I'm aging that I find to be a complete kick in the teeth is when one of the LAST spots on my body I suspect loose skin would be a problem gets caught or pinched.  That's when the sign is oh so clear my skins elasticity is breaking down.  Recently I pinched the skin on my knee so hard it left a bruise.  No clue how it happened!  I shrugged it off.  This morning, I caught the skin on the PALM OF MY HAND between the door and the garbage bin.  Not a finger, not a toe, but the SKIN on the palm of my hand.  There is now a blood clot and bruise on my palm and I had NO idea that area of skin could even get wonky or loose.  It's one of the signs ya can't outrun Father Time.