Fifty-five feels like fifty today, close enough to the milestone but far enough away to have some hindsight. I turned fifty while volunteering at the San Francisco Patients' Cooperative, a medical cannabis facility. The patients and staff threw a big party and it was a lot of fun...but very, very humbling at the same time.
I had a memory of that moment in time five years ago. It felt so real, so close...so present, revisiting the faces of friends, some of them gone now, victims of cancer, HIV/AIDS and so on....and they were throwing a party for me?
Why I selected fifty as "feel" for today is simple, and complex.
Simple-new beginnings. Complex-greater responsibilities.
Today kind of feels like that; the beginning of new projects...the anticipation of outcome...fifty kinda felt like that to me, and I believe fifty-five is all about new beginnings, too-they just have more flavor!
Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street 1997
Randi on Stage 1997 at 1444 Market Street, SF, CA
Jack and yours truly today
Randi and Jack on the "Cadillac Campsite Tour"
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