Class of '67 Reaching The Point of Being Over Thirty for Over Thirty Years

Received this email from Kent Barcus this morning. Thanks Kent for your interesting observations of 'being over thirty for over thiry years'!

Hi Cathy. Hope you're doing well in this new year.

Dealing with the compulsion to write something else without a picture or name to it other than:

Class of '67 Reaching The Point of Being Over Thirty for Over Thirty Years.

So it's time for a milestone and pulling the car over to the side of the road you read another number ending in zero for the sixth time in your life, presuming you still drive. Or just ask Chris Peterson for a ride since he's been there by now anyway.


And if looks concern you (they shouldn't) be content to know that you each and all look fine if not exceptionally fine indeed, but not even that really matters. We all seem to have some quantity of skin, hair, and teeth remaining. And if you have any health at all be grateful for that.


Money? Oh, they still use that stuff although it doesn't seem to last quite like it did twenty or forty years ago. In fact it seems to have taken on a strange disappearing feature lately. Yet it won't buy you love, nor will excessive quantities of it rent you the sort of attention you really need in life.


Ideally you have contributed to the benefit of others and may still do so even if you don't recognize it or receive any direct acknowledgment of it. But someone has noticed or will recall someday. And may you know the fullest measure of grace, mercy, and peace.

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And below is a photo I scanned from the '67 Ceralbus (pgs 18 & 19) which you may enjoy!