i am, as the tombstones used to say, "in the sixty-seventh year of my age," but "retirement" is not likely any time soon, since i spent my youth in various Diversions that did not involve making any money.
Yes, in any meeting of Inliners we'll see a lot of gray hair. With that we may also find a lot of accumulated experience and, here and there, some wisdom. Others are elsewhere, accumulating their own experience. How wisely they are accumulating it, or how wise they may become as a result, remains to be seen. Mere survival, in this hellbent twenty-first century, may require all the wisdom one can acquire, and the grace to exercise it.
Inliners are good at doing what they can with what they have and finding some pleasure in it. They are not given to wasting time wishing for what they don't have, or regretting their choices. The older we are, the less time we have to waste.
Let us all hope that our cars will run faster than we can run . . . and that we can keep up with them behind the wheel.
God's Peace to you.
d
Inliner #1450
