Here is a thought-provoking poem: “Age is a quality of mind. If you have left your dreams behind, if hope is lost, if you no longer look ahead, if your ambition’s fires are dead — then you are old. But, if from life you take the best; and if in life you keep the jest; if love you hold no matter how the years go by, no matter how the birthdays fly, you are not old.”

Thoughts by the late Rev. Paul Osumi are selected weekly by his family.