"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Recently I turned fifty. It's a milestone birthday, right? It's meant to mean something. Prior to this event I was doing a fair amount of reflection on what I wanted it to mean for me to reach half a century. In so many ways it's just an arbitrary number that has little significance. It's only the story you associate with the age of fifty that makes you feel something about your identity. Regardless of the