Thursday, July 03, 2025

I'm Approaching My Prime, Baby!

 July 3, 2025

   Just a friendly reminder that most athletes peak in their twenties, rock stars in their thirties, divorcees in their forties, truck drivers in their fifties, pickleball players in the sixties and politicians in their seventies. But outperforming them all in terms of age—as in the longevity zone—historians peak in their eighties! 

"I'm in my prime!"

—Carl Sandburg, 85  

   Walk it off Peckerwood. Speaking of wood. . .


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   I grew up with them and they were definitely a thing.

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   I also have a better view of what it means to always be on the cutting edge, something I aspired to in my thirties and forties, especially.


“Nothing dulls faster than the cutting edge.”
—Andrew Weed

   On the other end of the spectrum. . .


“The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks.”

—Old Vaquero Saying

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