True dat. As I have decided to resign from the frontlines of the fight, to take my experience and knowledge to advise and consult, I am building a website. One of the goals is to share the country wisdom that my grandparents taught me. The section is going to be called "Nana Taught Me How". True Story ~ This year marks the end of my 4th decade as an adult. I left home at 17 for college and never went back home. I was a homeowner at 20, having taken over my great-grandmother's home, which was where my family landed in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression and when the boll weevil hit the agricultural areas of the SE. I know how to stretch a food budget, build up a pantry, sew, mend and construct garments, knit, crochet, embroider, maintain a car, create and maintain a budget... Just so many things. Now at 57, I want to share enough to get people started. My own kids and some of my nieces and nephews are taken care of. I want to be "mama" to others, who are not so blessed and do not have my privileges.As we say, "each one teach one".
I am an Elder Gen-Xer and I remember how fucked up the environment was in the 1960's. Rivers catching on fire. Open dumping. We studied the different forms of pollution in school because the book, Silent Spring started a freakout when published in 1962 (the year of my birth). And don't think that your efforts don't make a difference. I live in a small town that borders Atlanta and our efforts have created an oasis. Kids can walk/bike to school. Grocery, hospital, everything is within 3 miles square. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Fuck off and go watch the movie Lemon Tree and then come back here and defend the government of Israel. Because the government is not the people there any more than our government is representative.https://www.imdb.com/title/...
God, I hate Yuppies. Plenty of boomers stayed hippie underneath, just as I stayed punk rock in the Corporate world. But now that I am disabled and retired, I can talk with the Millennials. They appreciate punk rock perspectives.
Hippie perspective, man. I hate the hippies that became Yuppies. Sold out, man. This comes from someone with a punk rock perspective, original recipe, HS class of 1979. I was a punk rock as late seventies Atlanta allowed you to be, so there was a liberal dose of New Wave to the wardrobe. I own a car but only drive it to grocery shop and go to the doctor unless I am going to the BF's 30 miles away. I use one tank or less of gas each month. I use LED lights and I live in a small space (less than 1000 sq feet). I have never lived in a new house, always buying older homes and rehabbing them. My condo was built as apartments in 1968 and are solid with foundations and brick. I recycle everything, shopping as well as selling consignment and donating.And yes, he was not one of us.
True. I am now dividing people into 20th century and 21st century. If two decades into the New Millennium, someone is still clinging to the 20th century, then they are outside my fence. Firm boundary.
Same. It breaks my heart to hear how many of them fear the future.
While they are the least prejudiced generation I've known, and the most interconnected on a global scale, it saddens me that they have to put off families and buying homes just to get by. It should be easier, not harder, to achieve all that we did.
They are fighters and they're dedicated to bettering things, but it saddens me that they have to spend their youth battling for things we older folks never had many worries about when we were their age.
True dat. As I have decided to resign from the frontlines of the fight, to take my experience and knowledge to advise and consult, I am building a website. One of the goals is to share the country wisdom that my grandparents taught me. The section is going to be called "Nana Taught Me How". True Story ~ This year marks the end of my 4th decade as an adult. I left home at 17 for college and never went back home. I was a homeowner at 20, having taken over my great-grandmother's home, which was where my family landed in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression and when the boll weevil hit the agricultural areas of the SE. I know how to stretch a food budget, build up a pantry, sew, mend and construct garments, knit, crochet, embroider, maintain a car, create and maintain a budget... Just so many things. Now at 57, I want to share enough to get people started. My own kids and some of my nieces and nephews are taken care of. I want to be "mama" to others, who are not so blessed and do not have my privileges.As we say, "each one teach one".
Just set to follow you in Disqus so we can easily find each other in this forum. I am open to sharing phone and email and/or connecting on FB/Twitter,
I am an Elder Gen-Xer and I remember how fucked up the environment was in the 1960's. Rivers catching on fire. Open dumping. We studied the different forms of pollution in school because the book, Silent Spring started a freakout when published in 1962 (the year of my birth). And don't think that your efforts don't make a difference. I live in a small town that borders Atlanta and our efforts have created an oasis. Kids can walk/bike to school. Grocery, hospital, everything is within 3 miles square. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Fuck off and go watch the movie Lemon Tree and then come back here and defend the government of Israel. Because the government is not the people there any more than our government is representative.https://www.imdb.com/title/...
God, I hate Yuppies. Plenty of boomers stayed hippie underneath, just as I stayed punk rock in the Corporate world. But now that I am disabled and retired, I can talk with the Millennials. They appreciate punk rock perspectives.
Hippie perspective, man. I hate the hippies that became Yuppies. Sold out, man. This comes from someone with a punk rock perspective, original recipe, HS class of 1979. I was a punk rock as late seventies Atlanta allowed you to be, so there was a liberal dose of New Wave to the wardrobe. I own a car but only drive it to grocery shop and go to the doctor unless I am going to the BF's 30 miles away. I use one tank or less of gas each month. I use LED lights and I live in a small space (less than 1000 sq feet). I have never lived in a new house, always buying older homes and rehabbing them. My condo was built as apartments in 1968 and are solid with foundations and brick. I recycle everything, shopping as well as selling consignment and donating.And yes, he was not one of us.
True. I am now dividing people into 20th century and 21st century. If two decades into the New Millennium, someone is still clinging to the 20th century, then they are outside my fence. Firm boundary.
One and done here too. I do have a stepson as well who I truly love. The daughter wants to adopt.
The kids are alright. Get out of the house and meet some IRL.
If my heart holds out, I will be alive in 2050. I will be my parent's age, 80-ish. My grandparents lived into their 90's but not lived well.
David is going to Hahvahd.
After Laura Nazi Barbe Ingraham taunted him about not getting into college right away.
Crimson, represent.
Lemmesee, which would I rather watch, these kids or the rich kid show off her luxury Christmas presents in the other article . . .
our babies are FUCKING MAGNIFICENT.
I agree. Not all boomers.
Same. It breaks my heart to hear how many of them fear the future.
While they are the least prejudiced generation I've known, and the most interconnected on a global scale, it saddens me that they have to put off families and buying homes just to get by. It should be easier, not harder, to achieve all that we did.
They are fighters and they're dedicated to bettering things, but it saddens me that they have to spend their youth battling for things we older folks never had many worries about when we were their age.
You mean as in "Some, I assume, are good people?"
It says©1971. Feels much older.Just like me.