A 75-year-old young person

Have you ever met a 75-year-old young person?  I wish you could have known my dear friend, Dorothy McMillan, who passed away back a few years ago.  Wow, was she a pistol!  She was fun, sharp and feisty up till the end.  She’d walk into a room, and say, “Come on, let’s get in a discussion.”  If you gave her that bored look, she’d say, “Well, if we can’t get in a discussion, let’s get in a fight.”  I love it!  It reminds me of the words of General Douglas MacArthur on his 75^th birthday “…in the central place of every heart is a recording chamber.  So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, and cheer, so long are you young; but when the wires are all down, and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then and only then have you grown old.”