Chatting with a favorite nephew a few weeks ago, I lamented that I didn’t have more money to donate to Doctors Without Borders. It’s Médecins Sans Frontières in its French moniker. I’ve been making semi-regular donations to this amazing organization for several years.

But my nephew reminded me I have my own superpower. I could use my newspaper column and also write articles for other publications to highlight the amazing medical help these doctors provide and encourage more support.

Superpower.

I like the word, though you can drop it a few notches and simply say expertise.

I believe we all have a superpower. Maybe make that plural.

As we dynamically age, even despite some mobility issues, I’ll bet everyone reading this can name their superpower/talent or expertise. The question is: what  do you want do with it/them?

The answer might be right in front of you.

At a recent press club gathering of dynamically aging journalists – also described as veteran journalists – a young newspaper reporter joined the informal conversation. She was relatively new to writing about local city government. But for a couple of hours she sat at a table of five knowledgeable veteran journalists who had done exactly the reporting to which she was a newbie. She grilled us for every detail about the community. We offered tricks of the writing trade, some time-tested interview techniques and other news-reporting nuggets.

We collectively realized our superpower that day was the ability to offer guidance, not just to her, but also future aspiring young news reporters, filling in their college classroom education gaps with real world experience.

One of the successes of this magazine is how many Dynamic Agers are choosing to share their well-earned perspectives, to plant a seed, to give hope, to explain. And most of the essays were written by people just like you – not professional writers but people with a lifetime of perspective who are willing to share it.

We challenge you to think about your superpower, your expertise.  And then write about it. We want to hear from you, too.

Michael J. Fitzgerald