Bob Dylan sang of "days of 49", Ernest Hemingway had a collection: the first forty-nine stories, john Travolta acted in "Ladder 49", and I turn 49 today.
49 is a nice number for the telephone country code of Germany (perhaps next year's World Cup winner) but it is not a number I had prepared to have hung on me. 49 is supposed to be my father's age, but now I am stuck on these elevated number and everything they mean.
I have loads of stories to reveal about how aging feels to me -physically, mentally and emotionally. But I'd rather share how poet Robert Browning puts it:
grow old along with me
The best is yet to come!
49 is a nice number for the telephone country code of Germany (perhaps next year's World Cup winner) but it is not a number I had prepared to have hung on me. 49 is supposed to be my father's age, but now I am stuck on these elevated number and everything they mean.
I have loads of stories to reveal about how aging feels to me -physically, mentally and emotionally. But I'd rather share how poet Robert Browning puts it:
grow old along with me
The best is yet to come!
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