Getting Even With Our Children

Getting Old does not mean being dead!Getting older is much like getting to be 5 years old again. It's our time in life that one can set on our front porch and drink a glass of wine, smoke a cigar, half dressed, hair uncombed, no makeup and just enjoy the sights and sound all around us. Generally our children and neighbors let us do this not out of respect for managing not to die, but attribute it to an old age mental condition made popular by doctors wanting to see you 'again' in his office to drain another $500.00 from your old age check.

Stop and Smell the Roses I don't know who coined that phase, but I'll bet he was an old person. When was the last time you took time to watch a bird building a nest or catching a grasshopper to feed it's young, watch a praying mantis hatch from it's egg sack or watch a spider catch a fly?

5 year olds and those of us that are beginning to advance in age, have many thing in common. We both see this world for the wondrous place that it is. Full for beautiful and strange unexplainable things. Yea I know some scientist or preacher will tell you it's simple evolution or god's hand at work, but I really don't think either of them know what there talking about! I don't think it's that simple.

I think I will go set on my front porch, sip a glass of very nice port wine my daughter and son-n-law give me. After all it is mid-morning, temperature is still fairly cool and above all, just because I want to.