March 22, 2018 Who is important? Whose story should be written? How might writing someone's life story be an act of service? These are a few of the questions that we began to consider together, as we begin to prepare to write the stories of the elderly in our community this spring. Today, at the beginning of our Composition class, we spent a few minutes at the whiteboard, writing down the things that society believes about the elderly. Words like "weak", "useless", "boring", and "no longer beautiful' were painfully accurate descriptions of what they have heard and read. When we'd made our list of what society believes, students closed their eyes and listened as I read the first chapter of Genesis to them. We talked about the value and uniqueness of each human life. We also read several Proverbs that describe the elderly. Then we made a second list on the whiteboard, sharing the things we'd heard and read in s
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