This past week the family went up to Ridgecrest Conference and Retreat Center outside of Asheville, NC. This place is mainly Volunteer-run, and by "volunteer" I mean retirees. So now you have the setting. Here's the story.
We were sitting in the dining hall enjoying our lunch one day when Louise says conversationally, "Mommy, did YOU know, that when people get to be about 60, they start to shrink?"- she demonstrated by holding out her hand horizontally, and lowering it incrementally down to the ground- "seriously, their bones get smaller and smaller when they get old."
I looked around and saw that every single table adjacent to ours was filled with, well, people who were at-risk for such a phenomenon.
After laughing into my napkin, I asked her how she knew this, and she just tapped her head and smiled.
