maturity Samantha It is so hard when you wake up one morning and realize that you are no longer a child. It is harder when you are still too young to vote. College, careers, that in-between feeling. Maturity and age are not the same thing but don't ever tell your parents that. 000912 ... tourist Lather was thirty years old today they took away all of his toys. his mother sent newspaper clippings to him about his old friends who'd stopped being boys. there was Howard c. greene just turned thirty-three, his leather chair waits at the bank and sargent Dow Jones twenty-seven years old commanding his very own tank. But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do to lie about nude in the sand drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps and thrashing the air with his hands. But wait oh Lather is productive you know, he produces the finest of sounds putting drumsticks on either side of his nose snortting the best licks in town. BUT THAT'S ALL OVER. Lather was thirty years old today and lather came foam from his tongue He looked at my eyes wide and plainly said, "Is it true that I'm no longer young?" and I should have told him "No you're not old." and I should have let him go on Smiling. Baby-Wise. partial lyrics of my favorite Jefferson Airplane song still good advice 001102 ... bethany i hate that my waaaaaay younger sister seems, and does act more mature than i do at times. it doesn't worry me coz i know that when i was less mature i acted just like her. then i grew up and realized there was a fine line between mature and matured. word. it's really late, all apologies accepted 020211 ... pete i seem to be attaining maturity through pain and depressing situations. learning and learning from being made invisible, being betrayed, failing at something that seemed so sure. 040318 ... z an excellent short story by Theodore Sturgeon. 040318 what's it to you? who go blather from