Advancing Age

September 4

I am thankful for advancing age. It beats the alternative, as they say. But rather than make this a double negative, I prefer to think of the advantages that come with age, such as: 1) you get senior discounts; 2) you can slow down and everybody expects it; 3) you don't have to be as worried about things that used to seem so important but now are trivial; 4) you forget what it was you had to do five minutes ago, which gets you out of doing it; and 5) I don't remember this one.

The birthday before last, my daughter, Beth, got me real good. She put tape across my office door with a 'Do Not Enter" sign. She filled the office with string and balloons so it was diffiuclt to enter. And then she did this to my car: she covered every inch of it with post it notes and wrote messages on the windows such as the one shown in the photo. It took me about three hours to remove the post-its from the car. But now I still have a stack of them on hand when I need them.

aging  

all things get better with age

at least that’s the opinion of this sage

fine wine and aged beef

are much better, good grief

than those freshly made

and plans freshly laid

but what about soured milk

and rotten apples you say

well, i prefer to ignore those

and continue with the games i play

so with age comes wisdom and pride

and thin skin and wrinkles to hide.

© rt tulley