Age gracefully, make your later life matter

Dear editor,

Aging gracefully by making the most of your later life adventures is my thesis for this issue.

In 1990, life expectancy in the United States was only 47 years. Today, thanks to improved sanitation, disease control and nutrition, most newborns can expect to live about 30 years longer.

This revolution is the transformation of the massive Baby Boomer generation into the largest elderly population in human history.

Doesn’t white hair and weathered, wrinkled skin have a majesty of its own? Open your eyes and hearts and begin to view old age in a new way. Put more focus on the “inner person” on the experience, maturity, wisdom, spirituality and freedom that are the real treasures of life’s golden years.

If you can’t do anything about it. Just accept it.

I ain’t rich, but Lord, I’m free!

– Rhonda O’Hanley, Glenns Ferry