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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1811

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The term “older adult” is a misunderstanding if not an ill considered epithet.

:- Doug.

Grandparenting means helping the cosmos grow.

:- Doug.

Most are given age; what will we do with it?

:- Doug.

We have youngsters; what if we had oldsters? What would they be to the rest of us, how would they act? Would they be mates of the youngsters, sharers of play? How would they relate with the elders? What other sorts and roles of the chronologically advanced would we see if we’d look?

:- Doug.

In What Are Old People For? Bill Thomas observes that the pre-frontal cortex (he says the locus of the monkey mind) shrinks and so he speculates that we grow ever more capable of deeper forms of meditation and contemplation. This shows the science to what the poem “Modern Magellans” starts unfolding.

:- Doug.