Recently I visit a member of my church, Patterson Avenue Baptist in Richmond, Virginia, who is in a nursing home near the church building. The residents were gathered in a big room and being entertained by a lively trio of 70-something women, each dressed to the hilt in flashy (gaudy) garb, singing songs from the 1950’s to these 80-90 year old care-facility residents. One old man was grinning from ear-to-ear as he watched the women perform.
After my visit, I was leaving the facility at the same time as these ladies. I said, “I worry about when I am in a facility like this. What kinds of music will entertainers like yourself sing to me when I am an old man and they roll me into a big room in my wheelchair.”
“Oh, we have you covered!” one of them said. “We already know, sing, and dance to all the ‘Lady Ga-Ga’ music.”
Somehow a long life is just not as appealing as it once was.
“deo semper maior”
