One Life, Mine

The third reader of my long-gone school days said something
like, Life is a river, from its small and unimportant beginning it flows
steadily onward. It may hesitate, but never stop until early or late its end
is reached.
By anyones calculations, the river of my life has been a long and, on
the whole, a very placid one. No treacherous rapids or impassable falls have
ever disturbed its steady flow.
I have filled many pages with recollections of what to some may seem a
very humdrum and uneventful life. Arent most lives just that except to the
individuals who have lived them?
This self-appointed task has been a very pleasant one. I trust that
someone sometime in the future will find pleasure and perhaps a bit of
knowledge hidden in these pages.
It is said that three score years and ten is ones allotment for life;
beyond that, one lives on borrowed time. It has never been clear to me just
where and from whom this time is borrowed. I must say, the last decade and
a half that I have borrowed from somewhere have been most satisfactory. I
most sincerely hope that my credit will hold good awhile longer