On Turning 60

Not me but I'm not far behind.

Happy Birthday to LLB's co-editor, Mark Giangrande. Most law librarians who specialize in legal research are "toast" after about 10 years (ah, like me). But not Mark. Plus he teaches legal research at DePaul Law and for CLE courses, publishes substantive legal analysis in law review articles and writes for LLB; read in addition to his unsolicited posts, I frequently email the following: "Mark, You've got the expertise to write about this legal or IT matter, I don't, so FYI. -- Joe."

So, Happy Birthday, Mark And I think you will get a kick out of this: Turning 60, published by America: The National Catholic Weekly:

Were I a Hindu, it would be somewhat easier to rise to the occasion. Completing one’s 60th year — shasti-purti — is indeed an important event, the completion of a lifetime’s cycle of with accompanying rituals that mark the fullness of a life cycle. Life and health after 60 are then a grace, a gift.

Yet still, even among non-Indians, 60 marks a threshold of sorts. After 60, only in odd contexts is one still young — as in, “At 60, I am still safely in the younger half of American Jesuits." 60 is about getting old.

Old, us? Remember Chicago in the 80's, Miami in the mid-90's? Damn it all to hell, we are getting old! How did this happen??? {JH}