Last weekend was the Prep Bowl in Minnesota – our state high school football tournament. Amid the youthful achievements on the Metrodome field, 93-year-old Art Tysk was giving lessons on growing old well by doing what he loves to do.Tysk, 93, is a familiar face at Minnesota state tournaments and the Minnesota State Fair where he’s sold popcorn and candy since 1956. He’s been selling game programs since the 1920s. He started in sales as a kid, hawking the Pioneer Press and Dispatch newspapers. It’s the Pioneer Press’ Brian Murphy, who featured Art on the front page of the sports page during Saturday’s Prep Bowl festivities. When he started selling, thepapers cost a half-cent wholesale, and he sold them for 2 cents a piece.Art is an Ecumen customer in the Twin Cities. All four of his kids have worked in the family vending business that Art started. His company became the ‘official’ game program supplier of the Minnesota State High School League in the early 1970s.His daughter Frid recalled attending an Alice Cooper concert at the Saint Paul Civic Center in the early 1970s and waiting impatiently to greet the origional Goth rocker as he talked shop with her father.’My girlfriends and I were teenagers, and we’re hoping to get a picture with Alice Cooper. He’s in full makeup, sitting there talking business with dad, about how to put on a show.’Frid used the word purpose in describing her dad’s love for sales, crowds and persuading others to buy his products. She says ‘it is part of him …’ Valuable insight as we all grow older … love what you do … do the things that give you purpose and joy … and even if you can’t do them as fast as you once did, or you have to sit down instead of standing … you can still tap that purpose and joy.