2008 Woodie Awards
Many birthdays to come
Issue date: 1/7/08 Section: Voices
I found David Harris' (Dec. 10) column on birthday's very amusing - no offense intended.
Here you are wondering at the age of 23 if future birthdays will be of any significance and here I am hoping to make it one more year to 93. Birthdays are much more important now than at any time of my life. I know I do not have many left.
If I were your English teacher, I would give you the assignment of reading Browning's Rabbi Ben Erza. As I recall when I read it at the age of 23, it started out, "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which was made..."
John Cumming
Mount Pleasant resident
Here you are wondering at the age of 23 if future birthdays will be of any significance and here I am hoping to make it one more year to 93. Birthdays are much more important now than at any time of my life. I know I do not have many left.
If I were your English teacher, I would give you the assignment of reading Browning's Rabbi Ben Erza. As I recall when I read it at the age of 23, it started out, "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which was made..."
John Cumming
Mount Pleasant resident
