Scan for Today

I found the picture, shown at the bottom of the blog page, in a batch that has gone unnoticed for quite some time. When I see pictures of my father, especially from the time right after he stopped working, I start to notice things about myself. The main thing is just how much I resemble him. You know, the thing I notice most in this blog picture is... the gray hair. Yep, mine started to turn that color about the same age as it did for my dad. In this picture, my friend Tim, who I grew up with in the Westend of Louisvile, is outside our house talking with my Dad. A lot of my friends from the Westend now have parents who are approaching ninety years of age. Some, of course, have parents who already passed. It can be difficult to assimilate the passage of time and to try and figure out just how all of this happened in what seems to me like such a short period of time. It seems like only yesterday that I took this shot of Tim and my Dad. There is currently another generation of gray haired folk, the "Boomers" is what they like to call us, who continue the journey toward old age. I think it helps, to occasionally look at pictures from our past and reflect on what our parents experienced in their advanced years, so that we may be better able to cope with the challenges of our own aging. Myself, I just hope the journey continues to be as stimulating as the path that brought me here. Photography is a great tool for recording that endeavor.