Happy Birthday to Michael Whelan

Bit of a cross post here from Instagram since we just hit a milestone there. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t share in Michael’s 70th birthday celebration here on Tumblr as well. ~ME

OLD FRIENDS by Simon & Garfunkel

Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears