Interesting conversation with a young (20ish) voter last night when I questioned her lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden in the upcoming election even though she is a clear liberal/progressive. When I asked why she found it hard to support him, her main thrust was not about his age, per se, but about his being part of the old guard, wanting to do things the way they've always been done, in a capitalist system young people don't trust or value. And she understands some of the appeal for Donald Trump, despite being almost as old, in that he wants to shake things up or, more excitingly, blow things up. I told her that reminded me of us when we were her age when Richard Nixon represented all that was evil and wrong with the world. He was the epitome of what we called The Establishment. Totally resistant to any kind of change or accepting that things were way out of whack, the country wasn't go in the wrong direction - it wasn't going in any new direction that would right the
What a coincidence that you mentioned box turtles the day before I posted photos from our trip to Tennessee where we were all so excited to see a box turtle that 6 of us got out of the car and clustered around it and took photos of it like it was the Abominable Snowman! Used to be nearly every drive up our Chester County dirt road included a pause for a box turtle. And I like your other observations above too. I also see less of pheasants. And wooly caterpillars. And chipmunks. And dirt roads.
ReplyDeleteI see a lot more no-hitters in Major League Baseball.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the snow used to be up to my chest when I was younger. Now it's just up to my knee.
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