By Rabbi Richard Address
In developing our project on the aging of the baby boomers (Sacred Aging) a host of questions have emerged. Many have to do with how we, given the gift, we pray, of longevity, can continue to answer God's question of Genesis 3: "where are you?" (ayecha) So, I decided to try and start a small dialogue on our blog about these issues.

The recent post about the aftermath of Tim Russert's death also feeds into this. Faced with, we pray, decades of life after the children grow and leave, the transitions open to us from the demands of daily work, and the reality of still having to care for our own parents, what do you wish to do with this gift of longevity?

So a first question: Given the gift of time and relative health, what do you wish to do with your life? How do you see living your life, to paraphrase Frankl, so it brings you meaning and purpose?

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