Greetings intrepid readers. Thanks for being here.
Many people take the new year as a time for introspection. “Where are we going with our life?” I tend not to do this as my ornery nature makes me think it is too cliche’ to evaluate one’s life during auspicious dates. I turned sixty recently and chose not to go deep into my psyche. I like to think that I am constantly evaluating, revising and evolving.
Just because our fingers add up to ten, sixty years is no more significant than fifty-nine or sixty-one.
I say all this as an introduction that I have been looking over my life lately. This due the prospect of completing a project that I started over forty years ago. Also I’ve been dealing with some health issues that have pointed out to me in graphic fashion that my body is no longer the youthful temple that it once was (OK my body was never a temple, quit laughing).
I’ve been thinking about the young man I was when I was twenty. I was in the Air Force at the time. I was traveling the world and I was invincible. Me and my friends were kings of the world. We had more free time than a young man should have and we were left to our own devices in exotic and strange places from South Asia to the North Pole.
At the time I’d look at my elders and with a cloak of smugness and totally believed that I would never let my body fall like that. Now the joke is on me.
Age is an inescapable and cruel master. I watched my Father fail and die. I will do the same in my time. I guess the lesson here is to enjoy our time, keep as much dignity as we can while we slide and go out with grace.
Earth Year 2014
Never mix red wine with Oodo.
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