Threescore ten and then...

I like numbers. They are simple and dependable. Real mathematicians would, I am sure, argue that numbers are complex and indefinite. But to me they are simple and dependable. Two plus two is four. I have been playing around with numbers a bit this year.   In 2022, Robert and I both completed our seventieth years, and I have been thinking about that landmark. Individually we have each had ten cycles of seven years.   Psalm 90 observes that seventy years is the span of a life, or maybe eighty, if we’re lucky.   Lord, you have been our refuge             From generation to generation.       Before the mountains were brought forth,       Or earth and world were born in travail, From age to age everlasting you are God. … Seventy years is the span of our life,       Eighty, if our strength holds; … Teach us to order our days rightly,      That we may enter the gate of wisdom. …      Satisfy us with your love when morning breaks,      That we may sing for