Someone, somewhere may have given you the distinct impression when arriving at the retirement age, it meant coming into “The Golden Age”, a time when all the striving and stressing, the trying to get ahead and make your mark on this world, all this would be over. Then you could “retire”, languishing in luxury while on perennial vacation. This was to be the time in life when all the work, including the raising of the children, would be done and it would come back to you...the pay off for a life well-lived.

For boomers, it may not have worked out exactly like that. Instead there may be sudden job loss forcing early retirement or no pension to look forward to, or living on small savings, while hoping social security comes in, just in time to supply necessary additional income. What if we don’t outlive out savings? This is a worrisome thought crossing many minds.

Have you seen the bumper sticker that advises us to “Question Authority”? 

I think it is good thing to ask questions of our leaders, but I doubt it will help much bringing clarity as to why our nation is in trouble, on so many fronts. For starters, we live in a country politically divided, perhaps as never before. The constant friction within our government keeps forward motion and progress impeded.

Most people I know are feeling totally powerless to bring about change, or unification, or having any way to influence the course of our own future.