Country music rarely appeals to me, but Toby Keith wrote a song for Clint Eastwood’s film “The Mule” that I found very appealing. The name of it is “Don’t Let the Old Man In.” Being an old man myself, I took the song personally (plus, it was perfect for the movie). I’m about to turn 78 years old but, most days, I don’t feel my age. I begin each day with an hour walk from 6 AM to 7 AM. I’m no speed walker, but I’m not ambling either. Anyway, there’s a line in Keith’s song that goes like this: “Ask yourself how old you’d be / If you didn’t know the day you were born.” I don’t think that I’d have guessed 78, although perhaps there is an element of wishful thinking there. Of course, never having been 78 before, how would I know what it feels like to be this old? The point, obviously, is to not be ruled by the number. Or you might be lucky, like Satchel Paige: “I don’t know how old I am because the goat ate the bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be 27.”

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