Her actions are a challenge to anyone who feels that age -- or world-weariness or life's hard knocks -- should excuse anyone from engagement with issues as big as climate change.
It suits the world-weariness on the one hand, but on the other it's capable of hitting surprising heights, or at least perfectly matching the band when it's in full force.
But that one sentence -- with its luminous mixture of scars-earned world-weariness as well as tomorrow-is-another-day cockeyed optimism -- told us everything there was to know about the woman.
So to want nothing more to do with people speaking to him suggests a greater level of fatigue than even his premature world-weariness could have predicted 30 years ago.
There is no feeling of decline or even world-weariness in the trumpeter's playing, and his solos are full of constant invention and enthusiastic ideas.
