{"id":24802,"date":"2014-02-13T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24802"},"modified":"2014-02-13T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:48:45","slug":"passing-another-mile-post-39195000001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24802","title":{"rendered":"Passing Another Mile Post: 39,195,000,001"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Valentine Moon<\/p>\n

Tomorrow night Kate and I head over to the Heartland Restaurant, a place I’ve wanted to \"IMAG1288\"<\/a>try for some time. \u00a0The occasion is my 67th birthday. \u00a0The odometer clicks over then to\u00a039,195,000,000 miles. Getting to be a high mileage vehicle. \u00a0Won’t get much at trade-in.<\/p>\n

(aging man shoots selfie. \u00a0kicked off facebook.)<\/p>\n

When I posted about Sid Caesar’s death yesterday, I referenced live black and white television as a generational barrier. \u00a0Made me wonder what others I’m on the other side of. \u00a0Dial telephones. \u00a0Telephones with wires. \u00a0Telephone poles, too, I suppose. \u00a0Gas prices under twenty-five cents. \u00a0In loco parentis. \u00a0The draft. \u00a0Legally segregated schools. \u00a0Cars without air bags, computers, cruise control. \u00a0Organic food. \u00a0Genetically Modified Crops. \u00a0Round Up. \u00a0The moon landing. \u00a0Kennedy, King and Malcolm X. \u00a0Drive-in movies. Available abortions. \u00a0Housewives. \u00a0Small town newspapers. \u00a0A total closet for gays. \u00a0Pre Super Bowl. Home milk delivery. I’m sure any of you could add more.<\/p>\n

And yet. \u00a0There is still infancy, childhood, adulthood and old age. \u00a0We still breathe and procreate and eat, just as humans have done since the first homo sapiens emerged from the hominid line. \u00a0We still love, experience joy, delight, anger. \u00a0Injustice frustrates us, just as it has humans in community in all times.<\/p>\n

The most essential, the most fundamental parts of our humanity remain regardless of time or culture. \u00a0Yes, their expression and their understanding have particular nuances shaped by era and culture, but the fundamentals remain. \u00a0In no time have we been immortal, remained children or been passionless.<\/p>\n

We have never lived in any but the present moment. \u00a0We have never been other than on our own in our inner lives. \u00a0We have never been able to know the real inner life of another, so our lives have always included depth and mystery. \u00a0We have never been other than a part of the natural world and we have never been other than dependent on it.<\/p>\n

So my birthday, any birthday, wraps all this up and celebrates it, one person at a time. \u00a0I’m almost past the\u00a039,195,000,000 mile post and tomorrow morning at 9:30 am or so, I’ll tick over to\u00a039,195,000,001.<\/p>\n

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