The October first word is Older person. My Mom is not the oldest person I know, but she is currently being ravaged by the wasting away that accompanies dementia, and in this picture from 5 years ago she was still very much herself although possibly exhausted by keeping up with grandsons in the mountains at 10,000 feet. I look at her, at only 75 and know that it won't be that long before I am the oldest person in our family. I find that scary but inevitable.
