Aging Children
So I was reading this academic article from the late fifties. In it the author was discussing how, in literary studies, imagination was considered childish. It is something we’re expected to outgrow to participate in the adult world of cold, hard facts. (Making money and such nonsense.) And I came to think about the elderly I know. You see, I’m part of that sandwich generation where children take longer to grow up and need more care longer, and parents live longer, requiring care as they age. I know several elderly folk. One thing I can say is that as they ...