One of my friends who is fighting the indignities and suffering some of the pains involved in aging (he is but one of many) asked me to write a prayer associated with aging. Writing prayers is not in my tool kit, but since I reluctantly identify with this stage of life, hoping that others might somehow benefit from my unpracticed efforts in writing a prayer, I told him I would, as the Brits say, have a go. So, with thanks to my friend, with gratitude for thoughts about aging expressed by many others, as I get inexorably and uncomfortably closer to “celebrating” (is that the right word?) the BIG 8-0, here’s my first draft of an aging ...