As we age the temptation is to assume everything we've learned or experienced will be of interest or value to the next generation. It's not necessarily so.

Wisdom in aging is to discern between those things that are of interest or value to the next generation and those things we'd simply like to share.

Carol and I shared a meal with long time friends in which we discussed the challenges of our aging parents and what we wanted to learn from the experience as we faced our own aging process.

I suggested we write those things, seal the envelope, and open it when we reach 70.

On the way home we composed this list...

 

Murray and Carol's adult 'kids' in 2008