How My 70th Summer Came To Be My Second Summer of Love
Vol 2, №2 – Deflector™ is a business unit of Thomas Marketing Services Corporation
I would never have believed it. I mean, when you hit age 70 the expectation is your life gets VERY boring, you eat your supper at 4, and you become intimate friends with Pat & Vanna, yelling at the TV when one of the contestants makes a bone-head guess at an obvious puzzle solution.
No, I would have never guessed the notoriety and off-the-hook love and acceptance I got from concert goers and staff this past summer as I made full use of the season pass to the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA my three 20-something sons gave me for my 70th birthday to go to over 30 shows.
Though I’ll did have a plan and a rough premise, my Deflector Postulate, to actively research. Because the last thing I wanted was to be treated my age. You see, all my life being a fully responsible adult, provider and parent has been my goal. But to make an obtuse reference to a The Byrds tune I heard them sing it at the old Boston Tea Party venue, with my sons out on their own, I’m younger than that now.
And as the musician John Mayer once suggested, we make things happen for ourselves. It starts with deciding what’s important to you.