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I'm very excited to say that an article about my project was recently published in a local paper. You can see the article here. Major props to Danielle Nadler who did a great job with the article and managed to snap a picture of me before I got my shaggy hair cut off.
The article has already brought in a few new responses and I hope that it will help in my efforts to convince more people to contribute.
As always, I'm looking for participation in any and all forms, whether it's actually answering "the question" (if you're 55 or older that is), or passing on the website address, my email address, the mailing address, or any combination of the above. Don't count out the exponential power of passing this on to others -- i.e. you pass it on to a few people, who pass it on to a few people, who pass it on to a few people and suddenly there are a heck of a lot of people that have heard about the project because of you.
I'll part with this thought from Henry Thoreau in his famous book Walden:
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose.
Of course I couldn't disagree with Thoreau more. I believe that those that have lived have a lot to offer on the topic of what is really important in life and as I noted above, I've seen a lot of that wisdom already.
You might note that Thoreau was 30 when he wrote this -- just two years older than I am right now. At 28 I have the sense that I barely know my rear end from a hole in the wall when it comes to the big questions in life and so either Thoreau was way ahead of me at the same stage of his life, or he was a little too quick to judge the power of age and experience.
Matt
