Age

This aging thing ain't all golden years and shuffle boards, that's for sure!  Damn! I'm falling apart!  And that's sad...because there are people out there 20 years older than myself and they're playing tennis.
Now, I've never been one for tennis anyway, so there's no big loss on that one!  But still, the point remains that I am aging in a not-so-graceful fashion.

Oh well....at least I'm living in interesting times!
So for today, Fifty Five is the New Age...a little older, a little stiffer, but still able to Rock n Roll!

Beauty Secret

January's almost over already....seems I just woke up and it was December.

Is time moving faster as I age or just seeming so?  What is the physics of time related to the individual's age?
Where's Stephen Hawking when ya need him?

All this time/aging business isn't so bad, really, so long as one doesn't take it too personal.  Don't let mirrors become accusatory-learn how to stand back a distance and enjoy the over-all effect rather than honing in on every little line.

Or do what I do..don't give a shit and enjoy life for what it is.  If people don't like you that way, to hell with 'em!

For today, Fifty Five Is The New Beauty Secret...BE YOURSELF!  Nuff said.

Feeling Fourty

At fourty I was living in a converted 1958 high-rise school bus in the city of San Francisco with Jack and our cat Mocha. We had a million dollar view of the Bay Bridge from where we parked on China Basin...there were a bunch of us, not homeless...vehicularly housed.
We were explorers, pioneers and at the same time very much just like everybody else, trying to make ends meet, keep food on the table and all the rest.
We made our own electricity, had a complete one bedroom apartment with a computer/printer set up and everything.
It felt good to be independent. It felt scary thinking that at any moment our entire world could be towed out from under us with very little hope of ever getting it back. But it felt...and that's what's most important. If you feel, you live. Difficult or easy, if you feel you live.
So for today, Fifty Five is the new Fourty....now say it with feeling!

Way To Go

At SF AccesSF Channel 29  circa 2006 or so

Jack and I have been making music together for a long time...and now at long last we have the time to work on our creativity without so many interruptions. 

At least that's what I'm praying.....

Life has its way of seeping in through the cracks in the walls; it comes screaming through the telephone "pay attention to me!" and has no consideration for time or other commitments.

I try to stop it as much as possible.

Anyway, we are able to do a lot more than we used to, so for that we are truly grateful.

So for today, Fifty Five Is the New Way To Go....full steam ahead, priorities in order.

Thoughts on the New Year 2010

2010....I wonder how this year is going to be?  It's still new enough to pose that kind of question.

Will we as a species improve ourselves, come upon any understandings that make peace possible?  Will we invent something to take away suffering or ease the ravages of disease?

I wonder.

Some folks are very stoic when it comes to our future.  They see us as edging closer and closer to our own self-imposed destruction.  They can't believe that anything else is possible.  And there are even some that want to hasten that event....sounds crazy to me, but hey! What ever floats your boat.

Personally, I hope the coming year brings some level of peace, some sort of sense amid the chaos brewing 'round us in the world.  I pray the United States does away with its hypocrisy and starts dealing truthfully with the rest of the world.  Perhaps doing that would help lessen the hatred others have for us as a nation.  Perhaps. It's what I pray for, among other things.

For today, Fifty Five Is The New Thoughts on the New Year...thoughts of hope and peace.

Time Out

Rain and the Trees  by rcw

It should be raining...big drops tapping against my window pane.

The cable car skates by down the bottom of our street, its' bell clanging cheerily....

Sometimes there's nothing better than the sound of rain....
it brings back memories, instigates love making...

Today it's just helping me relax. Last week was busy, crazy and a bit unnerving right at the end of it....some things we just have to go through, like getting teeth drilled or receiving a really bad bit of news...but we get through it.
That's were I'm at right now....in recovery mode.
Not a bad place, really.

So for today, Fifty Five Is The New Time Out; a chance to unwind and get ready for the next thing that comes along.