'..to whom we owe so much'
Have you hugged your lola (grandma) lately?
This isn't a tribute to grandmothers -- deserving though they are of our gratitude and caring -- but a little reminder about the deference and affection that elderly persons in general used to be shown more clearly. Failing eyesight and dependence on a walking cane don't diminish their worth as people; grumpiness and memory lapses go with the territory of aging -- which we all face at some point in our life.
Check this out:
As [President's Council on Bioethics chairman] Dr [Leon] Kass wrote in a column in the Washington Post: "Against our confidence in mastery and control, we need to remember that old age and dying are not problems to be solved but human experiences that must be faced. In the years ahead, we will be judged as a people by our willingness to stand by one another, not only in the rare event of a natural disaster but also in the everyday care of those who gave us life and to whom we owe so much."
It's the last paragraph of an article titled Who Cares? The crisis facing an aging society by Carolyn Moynihan at MercatorNet, and it drives home one of the crucial points that many of us may forget once in a while.
Have you hugged your lola (grandma) lately?
posted by sunnyday at 7:15 AM
1 Comments:
Goatboy said...
yes i have
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