September 29, 2009
Today I begin to put my thoughts, observations, opinions and memories into something more stable and permanent than my mind.
My commitment is to be truthful, fair and candid to the extent I can stand the heat. I hope this provides some interesting reading, if only for myself.
Just filled out a little of my profile, but I have lived a reasonably long and varied life, so more to come. Oddly, I didn't put in my birth year, even though (or because) I am over the big sic...sic...six-ooooh!
Analyzing this, I can think of two times in my life when I was way out of step with society. One, securely married for 25 years, during which "free, easy and safe" love was de rigueur, only to later find myself single and walking straight into HIV worries and justifiably skittish women.
And, two, courteous and respectful to my elders for all the years of my youth and beyond, only to arrive at "elder" at a time when the term has no perks, and is regarded by the young amost as a disease.
If venerable was a working word, I probably would be proud of surviving to this wonderful time of life. As it is, I think I will go buy some haircolor...
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