Aspiring to do more than can be done is no problem

Michelangelo Pieta

Lord, grant that I might always aspire to more than I can accomplish

– Michelangelo

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

With all the quotes above and a nice picture to post, it sort of leaves little to say. Then again today is the big 61. You know that is the one that comes right after the big 60. I liked the "big 60 day", looking back a year, because my BFF (means best friend forever) made a list of 60 things she liked about me or something like that and I was really pretty happy to see that. So here we are. A day to make note of. Well I can tell you that one of the things that I really don't get is why people like to relish in being old. Someone today asked me if anything seemed different but they couldn't wait to tell me about some friend who at 60 just noticed that the aches and pains sort of lingered and didn't go away. I might say, "get over it". Why would you label who you are and what point in your life that you have reached in terms of some stinking pain you had. Why would you just wait for the next email list of things to see if you can remember and say o gee I am indeed old. Yes I remember operators who said number please. Don't really care if I hear it again. Glad I was there and heard it and can remember it. Beats having lost my memory not remembering or perhaps having not been born so of course I wouldn't have been there, or, o my gosh golly, having some pain that never goes away. As far as I am concerned I don't know what the big deal is. My body is not in as good shape but guess what it is because I am not running 20 miles a week like I did for 25 years. It isnt' because I am old. It is because I just am not doing it. Not excersizing. I am on this blog every day. No wonder I have put some pounds on. Even so, I can go out and run 10 miles tomorrow, by the way I will indeed go out and to 6, and have little problem doing it by the way. So how am I. I just answered a email and told a long time friend that really I can't see that anything has changed much. Fact is the only thing that has changed at all is that I am a little humbler today than in years past. Ya Really. And by the way, if this blog has a spelling error well it's my birthday so get over it. Really nice day, did I mention. Really.