text: From my reading for the Month of May...
  
  There is the Gift of Years by Joan Chittister... that talks very clearly about the aging population and the changing 'face' of America. This is from the US census... 
  
  Between 2010 and 2050, the U.S. population
  is projected to grow from 310 million
  to 439 million, an increase of 42 percent.
  The nation will also become more racially
  and ethnically diverse, with the aggregate
  minority population projected to become
  the majority in 2042.* The population is
  also expected to become much older, with
  nearly one in five U.S. residents aged 65
  and older in 2030.
  
  and to that... I'm also reading  an oral history of Cloistered Nuns. Dedicated to God by Abbie Reese published by Oxford Press. Why? the reality is! there are a whole lot of us 'aging' into a monastic/contemplative/cloistered vocation.  This is not the vocational call envisioned by those worried by the same statistics applied to their own foundations.  
  
  What if we were to  count it ALL good??