further fortune

after my birthday post, i realized that i had never completely extricated the fortune. assumptions were made on what was visible, most of them wrong.
so i opened it up.

this is the way i've often done things in the past-
upside down and backward.

thought i'd try it this way this time.

the question is, which one?

fortune unfolding

today i am 60.
i have not yet made peace with that.
it may take a while. maybe a year.

 

then again, maybe not.

impending

 
i turn 60 two weeks from today.

i slide between amusement and dismay.

i did not expect to live this long,

i have but few words left for this song.

i turn 60 two weeks from today.

If I knew I was going to live this long, 
I'd have taken better care of myself.
  Mickey Mantle

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger