I feel like it puts a burden on me to speak for a lot of people who don't have voices. Thank you all very much for coming. You are now sufficiently warmed up. Here is my wife, Mary Pipher. In her new book, Pipher takes on what she considers to be the other great challenge of society and relationships, how we treat our aging relatives.
Old people are ashamed of the word old.
A lot of people are embarrassed to tell their age. What it actually refers to in the book is the fact that older people tend to live in a very different culture than the rest of us. The things they enjoy doing with their time, the cultural products they consume are very different. Also they have lived in a very different country than the rest of us. The book's message resonates with the mature audience that gathered for the book signing.