Time flies whether you're
having fun or not and
when we are young we
admire clever people but
when we get old we admire
kind people and sadly we
find that there is always a
specific moment when we
realize that our youth is
gone.

The first forty years of life
give us the text and the next
thirty supply the commentary
and one of the many things
no one tells us about aging
is that it is such a nice
change from being young
because in youth we learn
and in age we understand
but the really sad part about
getting old is that we stay
young on the inside but no
one can tell.

Live a good and honorable
life and then when you get
older and think back you'll
get to enjoy it a second time
around and by the time you
hit sixty you'll have learned
your hardest lessons because
by then you have found out
that only a few things are
really important and you
have learned to take life
seriously but not yourself
and by then you know that
beautiful young people are
acts of nature and beautiful
old people are works of art.
                                                      on York   2016