Given the alternative, I find myself quite ready to die

🫧 Open on Bubbles Photo by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash I would like to live to one hundred. That’s the goal. Maybe a few years more, if I can. That gives me roughly seventy years from where I stand now, which is a pretty generous amount of time by any historical measure. Most of my ancestors, going back as far as anyone has bothered to record, would have considered seventy years from birth to death to be an absurd bounty. Well, I want those years. I am perfectly happy to be aware that the wonderful evening I’