INTROSPECTIVE ON OUR ELDERS

Introspective on our Elders Viewing another's achievements in their time and space through the prism of our present can be distorting for the ignoble among us, and very discomfiting for those yet ill-informed. Each age has its own imperatives, coordinates, and paradigms unique to itself, upon which its successors and survivors' must rise or fall, sink or swim, live or die. This includes us. Because we are here, it is clear that our forebears were then successful in negotiating with the lions and the bears, both tortoises and hares, to get us from here to there with care. Our historical legacy is being built and constructed now, each waking and working day. Let us go forth today, with balance and equanimity, with joy and hope, knowing that as we look now back upon others, yet others will in the future look back upon us, and also lyrically wonder "how we got over, made it on over." So, rejoice and be glad!