“How Terribly Strange to be 70"*

And it’s not that strange, though I have “seen” my death

*from Paul Simon’s “Old Friends”

Photo by Danie Franco on Unsplash

All this past year, at age 69, I keep thinking that I was already 70. The day came — the anniversary of my birth — with a shock.

“I’m 70 years old,” I said aloud to no one.