This is a photo of me while Jeni and I were discussing life by the Skokomish river while bike camping with .83 last weekend. The gray hair is quite distinct contrasted with the red in my beard.

With my fathers health declining, I asked him what he wanted me to do when he ended up in the hospital to break into that conversation.

When people asked me the standard “do you feel older?” question because of my birthday, I replied no, but that this conversation made me feel older.

Yeah. Funny how that happened.