Kendall,

You have posed a tempus in a teapot me thinks. ;-) As Huddie Leadbetter said in his song, "Relax your mind." The time is the message. Be happy that we have some. Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, "Whenever I start to feel the least bit self-important, I think of all the dirt that never did have a chance to sit up and look around."

To paraphrase something else you said here, I don't feel any different than I did 50 years ago except when I try to walk, defecate, urinate, screw, pick my instruments and think----plus a few others I've not remembered to put down here.

Art ;-)