On May 28, 2006, at 5:00 PM, John McCreery wrote:
> Splendid. Sound like truly lovely people.
>
> John
>
I'm glad you liked it. I'm proud of it, admiring of them.
I understand when folk complain about dull elders. I spent my teens
doing social service in old folks' homes and therefore know how things
generally go. We've seen our parents age and die. I know that a
shrunken version of ourselves is the future most of us face; it is only
a few of us who get to be interesting old people. So when I run across
spry-ness, I love it, celebrate islands in the stream, heroes to note
as the current sweeps us along. Muriel and Irv are regular folk--he
was in the navy and worked as something or other; she had her own
career.
May we all end so well.
They were talking bravely of a seventieth anniversary party. We'll see.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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