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The first version of the French folktale "Stone Soup" was published in 1720. Entitled "Soupe au Caillou," the fable was recorded and modernized by French journalist and author Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer. “Stone Soup” existed as a story for many years previous to this first printed edition in rural oral traditions. It is an amazing guide to successful human cohabitation.

I awoke the other night with a start from a dream that shook me to my bones. I dreamt an old friend visited me and asked me to remember him. He needn’t have worried, as he was a man I could never forget. His name was Lee. He was a gay man in a time of isolation and at least 30 years older than me.

In our culture aging is feared, maligned and older folks often marginalized. Consider the thousands of advertisements seen daily on television and social media touting products to reverse or prevent wrinkles, for grey and thinning hair, to reverse or slow down memory loss and a multitude of other illnesses and horrors associated with aging.