Something like 10 or 15 years ago we got my grandmother a computer and an AOL account and I went over to her house to set it up.  Actually, I think the very first one was one of my older computers that I no longer needed... I don't know... she's upgraded a couple of times since.  We figured at the time that since she would regularly type out letters and snail-mail them to people, the transition to email would be pretty easy. Indeed it was and she's been emailing like crazy for all these years.  It's been great to see first-hand the applicability of online communication to that age population and it's been admittedly fun to hear my father providing tech support to her after all the years that I provided tech support to him!  In any event, she recently forwarded me a piece that's circulating on the Internet called "The Computer Swallowed Grandma" and included a note at the top thanking me for that introduction of a computer all those years ago.  Down at the bottom of the forwarded message, though, were these words that I found incredibly important and true:

We do not stop playing because we grow old;
We grow old because we stop playing

Indeed!

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