I turned 50 years old on June 7th, and am really quite happy about it. When I was young, 50 seemed "old"--and of course, I could never imagine that the day before my odometer rolled over, I would be participating in my first African dance recital! Which is precisely what I did. My friend Nonah from my dance troupe, almost 80 years young, has a slogan on the frame of her car's license plate: "Screw the golden years." Damn straight.
I feel younger now than I did in my thirties. That was a difficult, questioning decade for me. My forties were better, but I look forward to the next decade with joy and curiosity. I leave you all with the following quote:
"People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born."
Albert Einstein
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