Attitude of Gratitude

           Perspective on this 65th Birthday           I can remember thinking that I would never go gracefully into my older years. If you asked me how I would age when I was in my twenties, I would have told you I would go kicking and screaming. I believed I would have weekly appointments for the latest miracle treatment to be applied to my entire body, and I would be searching down the best plastic surgeons in town.          The funny thing is, I can remember in my forties starting to see those smile lines permanently creasing my face, and I became fond of them. The furrow of my brow reminding me that I have survived raising children. My hands remind me of my mothers each time I look at them, and that makes me smile. You see my friends.......I have earned these creases and lines and bags and extra flaps of skin that have found their way ...