"As you age, the people who remember you when you were young are fewer and fewer. Then, finally - it's just you standing there, keeper of the stories, holding in your heart the endings of those who have gone before you and the beginnings of those who are following after you.

And, they follow so fast. That is the way of the world, which makes it natural, but does not make it easy."

L.D. Burnett, Keeper of the Stories/Society for US Intellectual History