You may be aware of aging. Not just people but things, too. Important things like the road you use and the buildings you live and work in. When I came to the local campus, it did not have a free-standing library but soon after, a full-sized library was built. It was centrally located on the campus and got lots of use.
Recently, building inspectors said it was getting unsafe and needed to be replaced. A modern college library is a complex operation, housing books and periodicals, to be sure, but other items and activities, too. The whole building is going to be replaced and the first steps of re-locating various services and operations to other near-by places has been accomplished. But wait! Some of the relocations have to be relocated again. See there are buildings that need their roofs repaired or replaced. Sorry, that we had you re-locate to that building but for your own safety and sanity, you have to be re-located again.
You can see what is happening. In addition to covid, sickness, vaccinations, a truly gorgeous autumn, necessary re-locations and re-re-locations are complicating lives, educations, teaching and learning. Naturally, while campus re-locations are being carried out, other effects of aging are on-going. Friends age and in some cases, the aging has brought serious physical limitations or death. Roads need repairing and are getting some important work done on them but meanwhile, the northbound lane will be closed just when you forget about that repair. Don't worry, you will be reminded when you are forced to drive to the next town to find a way to turn around.
