The changes of age

[CharlesHarris]

MB,

I sympathize. I am 68.

I have come to appreciate that an advantage of retiring on the modest pension afforded a mid-level government boffin and moving away from the city into an economically depressed area, is that can afford to support the local economy without appearing patronizing. I seek out and hire honest, hard-working young men, who need the work to support their families and are both willing and eager to help out an old man.

I feel blessed to have made friends among some fine, self-reliant rural people. Sometimes it pays to swallow your pride and in the words of the young soldiers here who are adjusting to their return to civilian life, learn to "embrace the suck..."