When are you too old?

With yet another birthday coming up I’ve started to wonder “when are you too old?” At what age do you give up?

At 100, Grandma Moses was still painting, and Titian painted “Battle of Lepanto” when he was 98.

At 93, George Bernard Shaw wrote “Farfetched Fables.”

At 91, Eamon De Valera served as president of Ireland. At 90 Picasso still drew and engraved.

At 89, Arthur Rubinstein gave one of his greatest recitals in New York’s Carnegie Hall.

At 82, Winston Churchill wrote the four-volume work, “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.”

At 81, Benjamin Franklin engineered the diplomacy, which led to the adoption of the US Constitution.

When are you “too old”? Only on the day when you have nothing left to give. And the good news is, we can always love.

Mr Peter Morphew 
School Chaplain