Children, he points out, learn to talk by being constantly surrounded by linguistic virtuosos- fluent older speakers who, in musical parlance, are " jamming" with the novices almost from birth.
Scientists have yet to solve the mystery of how Bristlecones and other long-living organisms get to be so old, and we have no idea how many of nature's senior citizens remain undiscovered.
Today, Wedgwood is cherished by the very elderly and the very ironic; an ancient aunt or an east London hipster are likeliest to wear a cameo brooch now.
There are huge swaths of Americans who would put on a mask if they were around someone with a weak immune system, or someone older, or at risk in some way.
To any other person than a mother it might have seemed a little humiliating that she, the elder of the two women, should be the first to make advances.