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7 Ways Older Folks Get It Right...

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What can we gain in wisdom from people older than us? We all seem to realize as we age that our parents (who we once thought didn't understand anything) are really and truly full of wisdom. This morning our preacher (Dustin Bartee) blessed us with thoughts about 7 ways older folks teach us to live better. (This blog post for today is about point number one.) His words in bold. 1. Look up. There is so much competition for our faces and our attention .   We ignore beauty and people by having our faces constantly in our technology. We struggle with having our phones in our face and ears at all times.  (Guilty as charged.) I wonder sometimes if we will end up with a society of people that don't even know how to hold a decent conversation, much less get along because of the isolation that our cell phones and iPad bring to our lives. I am most concerned that our children will feel that something on Mom and Dad's phone is more important than they are. These same children