Tomorrow at 7:32 a.m. I will finish my 60th year. Strangely, I don't feel old. In some ways I'm in the best shape of my life since I joined a gym 2 years ago and have been steady about going.
Santa Monica, Tulsa, El Paso, Sierra Vista, Cu Chi, Danang, San Francisco, Marin County, Seattle...the places I've lived.
Where am I going with this? Next week I embark on the long ride on the motorcycle, so it will be great to start the next decade with a big adventure.
My daughter is graduating from college and will be traveling even farther out into the world and life, carrying more of her parent's hearts with her than she'll understand until she is a parent. She will also be carrying our pride in what a fine person she is, and we'll pat ourselves on the back for nurturing a born adventurer. She's walked on the Great Wall of China before she was 20 and scuba dived on the Great Barrier Reef.
I think I will follow her example and start going off big adventures as a regular thing....part of staying mentally young.
Thanks to all of my friends and family, many of them gone on ahead, for being part of my life. It has been a strange trip on many occasions and if I'm lucky it will continue to be that way.
2 comments:
Hey john
Should you be here blogging and reflecting?
Shouldn't you be in the Shed getting your bike ready?
The first comment was like this one except so poorly spelt and filled with typos that I had to delete it!
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