When You Don’t Know What the Future Holds

As I’m balancing my bag down through the plane aisle, I overhear a spectacled woman, with her own glorious halo of white hair, seated in 5D, turn to tell the bearded guy in a baseball cap beside her, “Honestly, it’s just good to be vertical — because, at my age, you never know. You just don’t know what a day or the future holds.”Nothing’s a given —- and everything’s a gift.And don’t we know it, with all this old world whirling and all that the headlines keep barking, and as I’m passing them