Aging of the Baby Boomers

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." We've heard those words a thousand times. If we're honest, we've even believed them once or twice. But what if the world suddenly stood on its head, and the people you have loved the most start telling you, "Today is one of the last days of your life."

In 1925 T.S. Eliot wrote:

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper

But T.S. Eliot was born before the Baby Boomer Generation. You may have heard of the Baby Boomers: they are a demographic of people born between the years of 1946 and 1964.  There are some 82,826,479 Baby Boomers in the world today, and just by their sheer numbers, they have taken the world by storm.  They have changed the face of every social strata through which they have passed: there was no such thing as a generation gap, sexual revolution, women's lib or civil rights before the Boomers came along.

That's almost 83 BILLION people, and guess what? The first of them just turned 65 last year.


26 years after TS Eliot, a man named Dylan Thomas wrote:



     Do not go gentle into that good night,
     Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
     Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Those are the words the Baby Boomers will live by.


This proud and fiercely independent generation are not known for sitting quietly and not causing a fuss. They will refuse to be banished into nursing homes and assisted living communities, never to be heard from again.

.They WILL be heard. It is my goal to record their voices, their stories, their Rage.

Because one day, we too will be old. How do you want to be remembered?