Essential breakfast

If we don't eat, we die; that's clear enough. But as we get older, we face the need to supplement our diet with the chemicals that we need but our bodies have stopped producing. Put at its clearest, if we don't take our pills every day we will also die. Well, die earlier than we otherwise might - we'll all die some time.

So, here's my breakfast, which keeps me somewhere between the green shoots of life and the dead leaves of decay. That's my metaphor for living today.