I just read a wonderful blog about the advantages of walking staffs over the traditional canes. This is up on Time Goes By (just click to get there). By God, I think I'll go find myself a quarter staff. Doesn't it look cool? Why wait until I need a walking aid?
My one concern is: will the airlines consider it a "weapon" and force me to check it through or discard it? If so, it is blatant age discrimination. I am already objecting on principle. If all of us elders took up the quarter staff we would be a force to reckon with!
The one quote from the article that I liked the best was: "Elders are obligated to give younger people clues about how deep and mysterious elderhood can be."
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