<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 26pt; background-color: white; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Old Age</span><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;">by Julie Hebert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;">One day you'll wake up,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br><span style="background-color: white;">And feel an awful ache.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">It's then you'll realize you're candles,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Won't fit upon your cake.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">It's an inevitable thing,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">That we all will get old.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">It's how we look at it,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">That will tell how life unfolds.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Do you see it as good,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">From this point on life will be great?</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Or do you see it as bad,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">That soon you will be dead.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">If every time you cringe,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">When a birthday rolls around,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">You might as well sit back,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And watch your life meltdown.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">You have to think of aging,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">As something more than that.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">With aging comes great wisdom,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And that should be looked at!</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Aging mean's you've lived,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And birthdays mean one more.</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Have a happy birthday,</span><br><span style="background-color: white;">As there is still so much to explore.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></body></html>