It is no secret that this is the year we turn  82.  WHAT IS IT ABOUT BECOMING 82 YEARS OLD?   IS IT A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE? OR IS IT MERELY: UNEXPECTED, UNAVOIDABLE, UNATTRACTIVE, UNSOLLICITED,PERVASIVE & INDOMITABLE?  OR JUST HUMBLING?

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HAS ANYONE BEEN ON A TRIP THAT WAS FUN AND EXCITING? DID ANYONE EVER 

"BUMP INTO" A CLASSMATE IN ANOTHER STATE OR COUNTRY?  HAVE YOU BEEN ON A TRIP

WITH A FRIEND OR THE FAMILY ON A MOUNTAIN, A CAVERN, A BEACH OR IN ANOTHER 

PART OF THE WORLD?  LET US HEAR ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE! PLEASE SHARE!

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                                       HALFWAY DOWN

                                      Alan Alexander Milne

            Halfway down the stairs               Halfway up the stairs     

            is a stair.                                     isn’t up and

            where I sit.                                  it isn’t down.

            There isn’t any                            It isn’t in the nursery.

            other stair quite like it.                 It isn’t in the town.  

            I’m not at the bottom,                   And all sorts of funny

            I’m not at the top;                         thoughts

            so this is the stair where                run round my head.      

            I always stop.                                                               

                                              It isn’t really anywhere!

                                                It’s somewhere else

                                                         instead!