“Born to be Wild”

Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.

Hello Future Me,

How’s life? Doing anything exciting? Hope that we’re not getting into too much trouble at the nursing home yet having fun. Staying active and doing yoga.

Being born under Sagittarius, we are strong, independent, fierce and lots of energy plus a quick wit yet trust intuition. Even, doing wild things at times.

Do you remember in our younger years that we told friends that life is an adventure and meant to be lived to the fullest? I hope we fulfilled our anthem.

Being 64 years old present, hope that it’s remembered of working as a beer tent manager up north and listening to great music. We had plenty of interesting jobs when we were young plus lots of babysitting.

Memories of seeing the Rolling Stones at the now demolished Pontiac Silver dome when a friend that we were with got us on the field up close. Living in the “Animal House” during undergrad years and almost got kicked out of college.

Sad days of losing those who loved and accepted us for who we are. Plus, blessed to have Sam, Sukiyaki, Max, Fred, Cody, Adrian, Seville and Madrid in our lives. Now, it’s the feline divas Bella and Luna. Blessed with fur glistening in our heart and on our clothes.

Hope you remember our travels with the family, ex husband and the solo adventures to by bike, auto and airplane. Hope that you remember Hawaii, San Francisco, Toronto, Mexico City, Texas, Connecticut, and Providence. Plus, biking every where on Mackinac Island, north Texas and high school escape riding to get out of the house.

Only you know if we left Texas and made it back home to northern Michigan to spend time with our older brother, to live there “our” way this time and to bike along the lake. He told us that he was writing and don’t be oversharing so we didn’t tell him that we were blogging or plans to challenge our hobby on a larger scale.

“Born to be Wild” is a song about free spirit that we understood completely. Hope that it’s played where we’re at so that us and others can remember the freedom of our youth.

Yours Truly (literally),

Leslie Elizabeth David.