belated Happy Birthday to Mike!

[Ron]

How did we miss your birthday Mike?  I wish you a powder-filled, blue bird year my friend.  Cheers 

[jim-ratliff]

And Mike, a Happy Birthday from me as well.

I didn't realize you were also a member of the 60+ group.  Well done!!!


And an early season long weekend in Vermont sounds like fun.

[LivingProof]

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I was going to remain "in the closet" with respect to birthdays and came out only because of Lynn's and Gary's. This member turned on August 5th. I was in college when the Beatles issued When I'm 64, so I'm not 3x as old as when I first heard it. I loved the Bob Dylan line - Never trust anyone older than 30.

Some musings. I am blessed in so many ways. A mentor always told me that "the first wealth is health". When I was 20, and immortal, that didn't mean much, I've since learned to fully appreciate what he said. Age is more a state of mind and I don't feel or think differently from when I was young. Skiing was a passion of my young adult life, given up in my mid-40's and taken up again in late 50's. Looking back, the years away were, in many ways, the darkest of my life. Getting on skis again changed my life so much for the better. New friends and experiences to replace now departed or retired friends. I left some ashes of a great ski bud in Targhee this year, but, have great memories of a bluebird day with him there.

On the other hand, the passage of time erodes the body. Looking at pics from Jackson last year, there's no doubt who is the old guy. My bike riding is slower, can't power a golf ball as well, so, I need to keep working on being fit to stay up with ya'all. Let the journey continue.

[Ron]

as long as you are smiling and enjoy it, it's no real difference, its the joy that skiing and biking allows you to experience (the joy is in yo, not in the skis or the bike) that counts. they aer nothing more that the conductor or reactor of this. physical vs, metaphysical, which is greater? Perhaps age is the reward for finding joy in simply being? if all joy is simply in the meta and not physical, then the later is all that matters?  (OK, too heavy for a Friday?)

[jim-ratliff]

Mike:

I have to admit that I didn't pick up on the Beatles clue.? I asked Lynn how she knew your age -- she said that she didn't, she was just responding to your Beatles reference.? DUH!? ?

I remember a professor in a Business School class saying that the most valuable resource we have is time.? Like you, at 20 that didn't make too much sense to me, by 30 the demands on my time caused me to realize the accuracty of his statement, by 60 I came to understand a different aspect of that statement.? When I "retired" from the Army in 1973 my ID card was stamped "No Civilian Medical care after 2013".? I remember how strange it was at the time, it seemed like a time "far, far away".

Anyway, Happy Birthday whatever the age is.