I'm kinda ready here....

I've reached my sixties.  Not the era I could have stayed in forever but the cumulative years of successes, failures, joys and sorrows that followed. Life has gotten a little tough. I moved to the Bronx for a stellar job as a science research librarian for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo but lost it during the financial crunch.  My hometown, the house I lived in all my life was swept away two years ago by disease and old age when my parents died so now i seem totally rooted in the city I moved back to and was born in. I believe in new beginnings but now I face them without my old friends,  the certainty I used to have, or for that matter,  fringed vests and patchoulli oil. My photography is like a new friend who takes me to places I missed and back to places I've been but never saw before. Life is worth the struggle. Salah!