May 12, 2023
On Growing old
I circled back to general resolutions I had made to myself about getting old. I kept returning to my seventieth birthday, seventy seemingly being what man has been given as his biblical allotment on earth. I sat in my study, making clear to myself, possibly even with gestures, my homespun anti-shuffle board philosophy of what to do when I was old enough to be scripturally dead. I wanted this possible extension of life to be hard as always but also new, something not done before....."
Norman F. Mclean, Young Men, and Fire
Mann Gulch
