The best to you on your Birthday Richard.
You have been, and are, a man that faces all his days as a new adventure.
I have thought of life starting as a stream in the mountains, pure and fresh.
As we go though the years other waters mix with ours - the experiences and people we encounter. Some of these tributaries will be larger and the waters sweet, and some dirty. If our current (morals and values) is strong these bad influences and will not pollute our lives, what is now our larger river.
Our biggest changes are when other rivers, like your wonderful wife, join with our river of life. Together our current is strong and we can face those forces that wish to destroy us (like our communist President).
Then as those years pass are flow starts to slow down with less rapids. This is those enjoyable years you are at now when you wind though the beautiful days together, undestanding life more than those who have yet to have traveled so far. Then of course we all end up in the ocean were we be with those who have gone before.
Maybe a little corny but I look at my days now much differnt than those of years ago.
Dave
