When our president visited the pope a while back, a tough topic reportedly arose. Age. The president quoted Satchel Paige: “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”
The pope I guess chuckled. But the pope, who is eighty-five, knows. And so do I. My age is so remarkable to me, alas, that in order to wrap my mind around it, I have to spin a folktale.
A bunch of angels surrounding the
