Thoughts from a certified senior

Living past your seventy-fifth year doesn’t give you any special rights and privileges. But it can give you perspective. The urgency of youth and middle age becomes much quieter, and the need to push your agenda on others sometimes almost laughable. people can see you as having no stake in the game and therefore not really a player with any useful moves to contribute. But we in the Fourth Quarter have seen a lot. And we have telescopic vision backward. So that much that the young find urgent we find familiar, sometimes boring, sometimes desperately urgent. And like an old crossing guard we can be very good at seeing when life should move apace, and when it does best to stand still, listen, and look both ways.

I hope you enjoy some of the things posted here. My quiet hope is that some of them will change you. And if you react to them, perhaps some of them can change me.