THAT's my calling because that's the only way to overturn our ghastly culture around aging - start from youth to implant an appreciation of what comes when we slip from facility with all life offers to needing a bit of a hand, from our wild independence days into the blessings of interdependence.
I've thought & I've thought until my thinker was sore & that's what occurred - it's never too young to start, never too old to begin. The glorious fact is that we weren't created to go kaput after a certain age. As someone stated, there is no expiration date on the bottom of our feet or on our butt. We're so warped by the go go go emphasis on productivity that came in with the Industrial Age, with the immediate out-of-dateness of the now defunct hot new item, that we mistake people with things.
My work isn't limited to the aging & elderly, their families & loved ones. It's just as much with the young & especially with the middle aged, who are too easily caught up in the fears of not being what they once were that they're blinded to what they could be.
Because if we don't change our attitude, the generation after mine will be even more messed up as they age than we are, and that is saying something.
Man the barriers! Hoist the battle flags! We foment revolution or go down in defeat, captured by a lack of appreciation for what this wild, wonderful life is all about.
All of it!
Every season!
Every moment!
Always remember that!!
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