Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

What is it Like to be an Old Man?

Life in the Nineties

There are a couple of old men on my street who have made it past 90.  Shaky Jake, as I call him, is 91, except that there is nothing shaky about him.  I encountered him the other day on the rocky trails of the Superstition foothills, upright, lucid, happy.

Across the street from Jake lives Tim, still self-reliant and sharp at 95.

From my conversations with them, the quality of their lives is good. But attitude is everything, here as elsewhere.

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