I'm loving your chronicles of you two humans and a cat well-matched in gumption, and I do hope you'll keep writing when you land! You have a lot of good insights and write about them beautifully. Also, from my "Flower Child" (aka old person) perspective, I appreciate hearing your perspective as a young person. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I imagine what ails you may be what ails so many of us now — the way late-stage capitalism has messed up so much in our lives, the need to search for meaning in a world focused on material goods, and the lack of community that's especially severe in our U.S. culture. One of the pieces of that is that people of different generations don't interact enough, so I appreciate all the more getting to know someone younger than me! Thanks for the opportunity. I wish we could hang out in person and get to know one another more, but I'm glad that at least we have this virtual venue to do it in.
As for your list, I've been thinking a lot about #2, how to spend the next decade (I am also at the beginning of a decade of my own life). Doing more writing here is part of it!
As we ponder the next decade, we don't want to lose sight of every moment today. We have watched our children having children. Now we realize the grands are graduating from high school. How quickly our lives unfold. Setting sights into the future is great, but the benchmarks to those goals is our life.
God bless you both in your writings as this sideliner has enjoyed the short transit.
I'm loving your chronicles of you two humans and a cat well-matched in gumption, and I do hope you'll keep writing when you land! You have a lot of good insights and write about them beautifully. Also, from my "Flower Child" (aka old person) perspective, I appreciate hearing your perspective as a young person. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I imagine what ails you may be what ails so many of us now — the way late-stage capitalism has messed up so much in our lives, the need to search for meaning in a world focused on material goods, and the lack of community that's especially severe in our U.S. culture. One of the pieces of that is that people of different generations don't interact enough, so I appreciate all the more getting to know someone younger than me! Thanks for the opportunity. I wish we could hang out in person and get to know one another more, but I'm glad that at least we have this virtual venue to do it in.
As for your list, I've been thinking a lot about #2, how to spend the next decade (I am also at the beginning of a decade of my own life). Doing more writing here is part of it!
As we ponder the next decade, we don't want to lose sight of every moment today. We have watched our children having children. Now we realize the grands are graduating from high school. How quickly our lives unfold. Setting sights into the future is great, but the benchmarks to those goals is our life.
God bless you both in your writings as this sideliner has enjoyed the short transit.