[MD] A guy in his 50s examines the coming storm

[Khoo Hock Aun]

Happy Birthday John,

I also turned a year older on the same day too. But you know, as someone
said, we are all the same age, only at different times.

There is also a lot to be said for travelling light too. 9 dollars and 31
cents can go a long way, if you know how. We are only as wealthy as we
think. Quality almost always depends on what we see.

Best regards
Khoo Hock Aun
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:10 AM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:

> So yesterday was my 50th birthday.  I didn't go anywhere, see anyone or do
> anything.  I stayed home with my boy, my youngest, Josh.
> Lu went on a women's retreat, my girls are away at school and there was
> really not much choice, since we had nobody else to watch Josh for the
> weekend.
>
> I thought staying home and meditating upon my mortality would be the
> preferable way to spend my birthday anyway.  I'm not such a huge fan of
> hoopla and party hats.  So that's what I did.  My brother would have come
> on
> over, but there is a huge storm coming our way, he says, and he had to get
> his crop in and  some wood split, so I mostly sat around contemplating my
> messy place and said my goodbyes to summer from a sitting position.  Not a
> bad way to spend one's birthday, tho when told, my friends and family all
> commiserated with me over my being alone.  But I don't consider that being
> alone.  Alone is when you don't have friends and family to sympathize.
>  Alone is when you don't have a boy to teach and raise and help dis spell
> the gloomy thoughts of the long  winter coming.
>
> I also have the MoQ discuss, to keep my mind occupied, and I want to thank
> you all for being here and giving me something to think about besides the
> fact that  9 dollars and 31 cents I've got in my pocket is basically all my
> money in the world.
>
> And thanks RMP.  Thanks for the words which are worth more to me than mere
> quantities of money could ever be.
>
> "Another metaphor that occurred to him was that he'd been on a tightrope
> all
> of his life.  Now he'd fallen off and found that instead of crashing he was
> flying, a strange new talent he never knew he had."
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