Sixty Four Years Old! Wow!

This morning I woke up reflecting on what all has happened in my sixty-four years of life on this earth.  It has been a pretty great run, much sadness but also a lot of happiness.  While some people refuse to share their age, I am happy to be 64!

Birthdays are strange, aren’t they?  When we are young, we can’t wait to be older and when we are older, we want to stop counting the years. We wish we didn’t have gray hair or laugh lines or flabby arms.  We get to be this age and we start losing our moms, dads, spouses and friends to old age and diseases.  Our memory takes a trip to, who knows where! And we get hitches in our giddy-up’s, as my father-in-law used to say. 

Sometimes I can’t understand why I am still on this earth.   What freak thing happens that allows someone very sick to live on and others that are healthy to not survive?  We don’t have the answers to these questions, wouldn’t it be great if we did? 

But, I’m here. I have gray hair, many laugh lines, flabby arms and a few other things that weren’t there when I was 20!  Just so you know, I happen to love my gray hair, I’m even okay with the wrinkles that we call “laugh lines”, and about those flabby arms………3/4” sleeves!   Great invention!

Thank you all for wonderful birthday wishes!

From left to right sitting are Julie, Mai, me with the pool hair, Mercedes. Standing from left to right are Linda, Ginger and Lorraine.