Crap - I turned 59 today. It's good night Irene as far as I can tell.

[El_Johns]

10. Getting older is great in most ways. You're less driven by status concerns, more able to see the

big picture, more able to take small difficulties in stride.

If you're reasonably healthy, it's a good time of life.


"Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind...

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

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