Almost Seventy

I am starting this blog on this date, August 25, 2015, almost a month before I turn seventy. I never thought that I would be seventy. I always thought that seventy was old, very old. Now I am turning seventy next month. I am entering the last quarter of my life. It is scary in one way but yet I have lived to this great age. I want to chronicle in this blog what it feels like to be seventy. I still see myself as maybe 26. Even though I don't have the stamina that I once had. Like the songs says, "I am not as good as I once was but I am good once as I ever was." I see the obituaries in my local newspaper and I read the obits of people dying that didn't reach seventy.  I feel very blessed in that sense.  People that are my age are the tip of the baby-boomers group. Those people that were born between 1946 and 1960 or so. Even though I was born in late 1945 I always considered myself a baby boomer because most of my classmates were baby boomers born in 1946.We are the group who influenced everything from schools to the hippies to the end of the war in Vietnam. We are like the pig that a huge python has swallowed  and is slowly travelling through the Python until the pig is completely digested. We can see the silhouette of the pig as it travels through the Python. Just as we influenced the war, and hippies and fashion we will soon start influencing medical care. They better start building more rest homes because they are going to need them as we age. And they should have good sound system because we will want to listen to the Beatles and the Stones. When we hit elementary schools in the early 1950's they couldn't build classrooms fast enough to deal with all of us, there so many of us.

Stay healthy my friends!