Happy Birthday Ruth

[Catherine]

Anything with pumpkin makes the day go better.

I hit your age 3 years ago and I think of it as being on the good side of sixty. 
Life starts over at sixty. I use it as an excuse to try new things. Any changes I had been thinking of making, I went ahead and made them. After all, we are sixty. Who is going to tell us we can't do something. If someone annoys me on the bus or somewhere, I just look at them and think "I am old enough to be your grandmother". I don't even have to say it. When I think that I have lived 40 more years than someone  it  is hard for them to bother me.

Just think of how amazing it is that you have so many years of experience. You have lived through some interesting world history. You are young enough that you will live to see many more amazing and interesting things. 

I think we will live to see great improvements in animal rights. There are already changes. I know that sad things happen to animals, but there are some really amazing things too. Someone chartered a plane and flew shelter dogs to safety just before the hurricane hit. Someone else brought over 90 parrot type birds inside and saved them from the hurricane. There is a lot of good happy stuff happening. We just need to look for it.

So Ruth, welcome to the good side of sixty. I am loving it so far and if you look for the possibilities you will love it too.