From the Editor

Suzanne Boyd

My favourite cliché and a convenient one for the start of this decade is “Hindsight is 20/20” because it distills so many truisms about aging while telling us to look clear-eyed at our life lessons and apply them to the future. This was the jumping-off point for “Your Health: Vision 20/20” (page 50), as we take a look at the leading Canadian science and medical breakthroughs of the last decade and how they will transform how we age for the better in the next. In this, technology is our friend, and this future vision, which is infused by it, applies to our finances (“New Money,” page 34) and the magical but documented impact of music on our body, mind and spirit (“Good Vibrations,” page 58).

Naturally, this leads me to the incomparable duo of Gordon Lightfoot and Bryan Adams, who photographed our cover story of Lightfoot (“Just Like a Paperback Novel,” page 40). It was like getting the band back together – Adams had previously photographed Lightfoot for our March 2011 cover. The evocative images as well as Adams’ profound statement below spespeak to the connection between these legendary Canadian artists.

Long may they create.