I’d be gentler and say it’s less narcissism and more the naivety that plagues every generation: to imagine the world a new thing they themselves have built.
Thank you, Sarah. The story of so many of our families. My mom, born 1924, wrote and published a children's book, about her mother's family's immigrant experience in the early 1900's. She was so proud of this country, at the same time she spent her whole adult life working to improve it through the civil rights movement and other activism. We will survive the next four years.
Here is to our mothers, their mothers, and all the generations who survived dark times so that we could be born into good ones, and to our ability to work to ensure there are better times ahead.
Also, also... while Charles may have been the hottest one at that moment, it's my grandfather who was once called "Proctorville's aging Lothario" by a judge in divorce proceedings, so...
There is a narcissism in our pessimism
Your attitude of thankfulness is spot on for this season
I’d be gentler and say it’s less narcissism and more the naivety that plagues every generation: to imagine the world a new thing they themselves have built.
Shabbat shalom, Sarah!
Thank you, Sarah. The story of so many of our families. My mom, born 1924, wrote and published a children's book, about her mother's family's immigrant experience in the early 1900's. She was so proud of this country, at the same time she spent her whole adult life working to improve it through the civil rights movement and other activism. We will survive the next four years.
Here is to our mothers, their mothers, and all the generations who survived dark times so that we could be born into good ones, and to our ability to work to ensure there are better times ahead.
I, too, thank you, Sarah.
Beside the point entirely, but also perhaps most American of me: your great-uncle Charles was hot.
I'm thankful for you. You are a force.
I mean, they were all pretty dashing in their individual ways, but I’ll tell his daughter when I see her at Thanksgiving! :D Love you.
Also, also... while Charles may have been the hottest one at that moment, it's my grandfather who was once called "Proctorville's aging Lothario" by a judge in divorce proceedings, so...
This is beautiful, Sarah. Thank you for writing and sharing it!