A Place to Celebrate 66

On October 6, I will turn 66.  At this time, I stop here at Merry Mount and reflect back on my life’s journey and I delight in charting the course for the journey ahead.

According to USA guidelines, being born in 1952 allows me to begin collecting unreduced benefits from Social Security at age 66, therefore, a couple of weeks ago, I filed and I now rejoice in the fact that I can begin to collect some of the money that I paid ahead from years past.

Looking for signposts, I googled The Secret of the Tarot and discovered:

When angel number 66 appears in your life, it carries a message from your angels about abundance, optimism, and creativity.

Wow! Here at Merry Mount, I am happily surrounded by a host of earthly female angels named, Rett, Caroline, Jess, Kris, Joy and Eva.  They certainly bring me messages of abundance, optimism, and creativity on a daily basis.  How blessed am I? Very blessed!

Let the bright seraphim in burning row,
Their loud, uplifted angel trumpets blow.
Let the cherubic host, in tuneful choirs,
Touch their immortal harps with golden wires.

Blow Angels Blow!  Sing Angels Sing!  Thanks Angels.

As I ponder the route ahead, I realize that I have perhaps come to a curve in the road and I remember a poem I wrote for the last public recital I gave entitled, Comrades: A Retrospective.

At the first glimpse of the Evening star, Thrush music!

The road behind me seems distant, yet somehow short.

It glistens as the last of the light of the sun magnifies

each grain of sand.

Wildflowers stretch toward heaven, striving to retain

their beauty.  Thrush music returns!

O ageless singer, I, like comrades before me, know

your song.  I understand your music.

But as I look toward the sunset,

 I savor the magnificence of the remaining light.

So on this part of my journey, I look forward to getting some "kicks" on Route 66!  Be well.

CPW