Nick Kristof on Geezers Doing Good

Not all those who pass
In front of the Great Mother’s chair
Get passt with only a stare.
Some she looks at their hands
to see what sort of savages they were.
Gary Snyder
(Seamless transition still en route) New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reports that 78 million American baby boomers are beginning to retire, and
one recent survey found that half of boomers
are interested in starting  new careers with a positive social
impact. Kristof, who apparently counts himself among that better half,  suggests that “if we boomers use our retirement to change the world, rather
than our golf game, our dodderdom will have consequences for society
every bit as profound as our youth did.”  If and when that happens, he says,”Boomers just may be remembered more for what they did in their 60s than for what they did in the Sixties.”
Read Nicholas Kristof on some boomers who are doing well doing good.