Cheers to 60 years
The loveliest of ladies said to me recently, that turning 60 was the best. You can say anything you want and do what you want. What she was saying is that it's the time in your life when you just shed all the conventions that you've been carrying or observing your whole life and just live way more honestly and lightly. That you've reached a time in your life where you just know time is too short for fakery or falseness or being afraid of what others might think or say. It was an apropos conversation. I had been on the cusp of my 60th birthday for quite some time (well - technically speaking, I've been on the cusp of this birthday for the last 59 years). A year ago, when it was B3's 60th, I planned a big party, with a theme. There would be t-shirts and balloons with said theme stamped on them. Guest list was extensive - an open house - dozens and dozens of people to drop by to wish him happy 60th. And then... you know... COVID. And it was all cancelled. And I thoug