My song of the week is a Miley Cyrus tune, Used to be Young. Singing lines of it for days, it also took me back to two other songs I've liked about being young. All from artists in their 20s, they capture how I have felt in my 60s. That's a pretty good trick.
I wonder if I was ever as smart when I was in my twenties. Maybe, but I doubt it. Now, I listen to songs about looking back and nod, but smile also.
I smile because while these writers are so right, I also know that there's a lot more living and learning to be done in their lives. Knowledge comes, stays and, sometimes, is learned again....and again...and again. But if we're lucky, we are able to look back and know it all to be true.
To have our memories, while also seeing them from the lens of today, is a wonder. It's a perspective I'm grateful to have, and to have given to me.
A Good Run
