Well, the dreaded letter came to our house a few weeks ago. You know the one: the one you get when a large advocacy group gets your name, and says \u201cWe hear you\u2019re soon to be one of us. Do you want to join?\u201d I showed it to my wife, and asked her what she wanted to do (because they addressed it to her). She wanted to join, so I dutifully wrote the check and sent it in.<\/p>\n
Today the membership package came.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re now AARP<\/a> members. Sigh. All together now…<\/p>\n So when you find it in your mailbox for the first time my friend Chorus<\/u> <\/i>When Mick Jagger has his breakfast of yogurt and bran (chorus: Modern Maturity…)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’ve looked through its pages and what I see there You can buy polyester pants for nineteen ninety-five (chorus: Modern Maturity…)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/i>MODERN MATURITY<\/i> (Tom Paxton) Copyright (c) 1993 Pax Music (ASCAP)<\/font><\/p>\n [Yes, this is a choice in the birthday poll<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, the dreaded letter came to our house a few weeks ago. You know the one: the one you get when a large advocacy group gets your name, and says \u201cWe hear you\u2019re soon to be one of us. Do you want to join?\u201d I showed it to my wife, and asked her what she Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou can tell that you getting older, you’re turning grey
\nIt’s a first sign of decline, it’s a start of the end
\nWhen your wrinkles out number your hairs then it’s headed your way<\/p>\n
\nModern Maturity, means you’re getting old
\nWhen you get the magazine that you hide from your friends
\nOnce it was Rolling Stone, it was thrill after thrill
\nNow Modern Maturity means over the hill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nDoes he read of prescriptions by mail or of self-rising chairs
\nYou can keep on rockin’ and rollin’ as long as you can
\nBut then you sit in your little seat and you ride up the stairs <\/p>\n
\nIs that everyone looks about twenty-five with white hair <\/p>\n
\nYou can get your grandchildren’s picture on your coffee cup
\nAnd if you’re tired of walking there’s a scooter that you can drive
\nOr a button to push if you’ve fallen and you can’t get up<\/p>\n