Yesterday -- actually, all week, the web has been / is warming up with tributes to John Lennon. A lot of people have begun imagining an older John Lennon.
October 9th is the 70th anniversary of his birth and his fans are planning events of remembrance and celebration for October 9th, and for December 8th, on the 30th anniversary of his death. See the video. Yoko Ono, his widow. imagines what John Lennon's 70th birthday could have been like if he was still alive. John Lennon looked forward to growing old as much as he looked forward to life,
From the Los Angeles Times -- In 1980, a 40-year-old John Lennon sang to his then-5-year-old son, Sean, "I can hardly wait to see you come of age." John Lennon was "unabashedly anticipating the future. And to his wife, Yoko Ono, he borrowed a sentiment from poet Robert Browning and crooned "Grow old with me / The best is yet to be … whatever fate decrees, we will see it through."