What's messing with your Groove?

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I feel like I should write a Letter to My Children, apologizing for the current affairs (crises) they're facing. But it would start with explaining how my parents and grandparents and great grandparents (etc.) made mistakes in their own time, which sounds like punting the responsibility/accountability angle that I hated when I was a kid myself. Back when I had youth's idealism and hope, and Great Expectations. It seemed easier when we didn't know what we didn't know, ya know?

I have to remind myself that my kids grew up in the internet age, The Information Age, where everything changes in an instant. I tried to teach them that *real* change is a slow and arduous process. When they thought I was an old geezer who couldn't keep up with the pace of technology (because I didn't have the latest iPhone), or a luddite (because I rejected Facebook and "social media"), I hope they didn't think I was totally clueless about the world they were growing up in....or how hard it's been for them to make sense of everything.

When I was a little girl and the world was on the brink of Nuclear War....all I needed was my mom singing a bedtime lullaby, and telling me that "everything would be okay", and I believed it. That's when we hid under our school desks in the event of Nuclear fallout *we even practiced that like fire drills* and thought that would make us safe.