Three Score and Ten Plus Six

Yesterday was my three score and ten plus six (76) birthday.  Birthday wishes from friends and family via Facebook and through phone calls, cards, Email and  text messages were much appreciated.  These birthday wishes “made my day.” “There is no cure for birth,” wrote George Santayana, nor is there a cure for death, “save to enjoy the interval.”  I intend to continue “to enjoy the interval,” and appreciated the birthday wishes supporting that intention. 

My  interval has had, and will continue to have,  ups and downs.  Ups and downs go along with  being alive.  Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.  And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things (all the downs, as well as the ups) in your gratitude.”  

My interval has been an adventure and my daughter suggested in her birthday wish for me yesterday that I have “many more adventures” to come.  I sure hope so! But I must add that my interval’s greatest gifts have not been my adventures or journeys to distant places, or the books I have read, or my educational opportunities, nor the dreams that I have dreamed.  No, my life’s greatest benefactors have been persons—“Star Persons”—who, like that Bethlehem Star which guided the wise persons of old—have guided me.  I am, at three score and ten plus six, so grateful for the Star Persons who have been a part of my interval.

And the "interval" continues....