R's rue

 Please pray That I share truth Love and hope Let my heart Not sulk Because I’m  Tired of waiting For dreams To become reality I have to trust That what You have  For me Is worth The wait from R's rue https://ift.tt/Sq1HdXp

70 GIF from 70 GIFs Once I was seventeen but now I am seventy. The two words sound similar but they are fifty three years apart. I am delighted that I made it this far. There were times when reaching seventy seemed like a  wishful dream because my father and several male members of my extended family died in their sixties - just like my brothers Paul and Simon. And thinking of another Paul and Simon, Paul Simon in fact - he was twenty four years old when he wrote "Old Friends" which was recorded for the 1968 album - "Bookends". He imagines old men sitting on a park bench like book ends and of course the song contains the famous line, "How terribly strange to be seventy". I concur. The seventeen year old boy that I was never  really considered what it might be like to be old - sitting on a park bench looking back. It seemed so far off that it was like the farthest planet in the solar system - Neptune - which is 2,703 billion miles from Earth. But now ...