Life is Sailing

(written Monday, August 18, 2025)

Sometimes I miss being in my twenties or thirties. When we hit our forties, everything starts changing. That can be frustrating to accept, at least for me it is. Life is just a whole lot different now than it was a couple decaes ago – busy life with older children involved in school and activities, changing skin, health appointments to keep track of, changing health of family and friends…

So I have found great joy in watching movies like Top Gun Maverick or Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning or even James Bond: No Time to Die. These movies seem to have aged with me and provide a gravitas to otherwise fast-speed, youthful adventure films. The main characters each face age and the responsibilities of being an older person. We still adventure on as we age, but we approach life with more perspective, richer stories.