01/14/2010

this is something i posted on Starlight News in response to adults bemoaning the fact that our children have gone to the dogs dragging us and our civilization with them:

When I was young the thoughts of the adults expressed as they are here were that we were lazy and spoiled and stupid. As my sweetheart says our parents were always talking about how they walked 30 miles uphill in snow to get to school and then walked 30 miles uphill in deeper snow to get home to eat their unsweetened cornbread and turnips.
I know that my grandchildren certainly fill their time in ways I do not like but I also know that these children are light years beyond me, or, rather where I was when young, in understanding human nature and relationships. In our family there is not an emphasis on science,etc and frankly I am grateful that we are more on the creative side of things.
I have a friend whose brilliant granddaughter was one of the scientists that we sent to kill the rats on an Aleutian island-brilliant young scientists. Well read reports of the follow-up on that little experiment. Turns out that killing the rats created more problems than existed with the rat over- population.
This is by way of saying that these young people belong to their age and they will step up in the ways that their times demand of them. Worshiping the Pluto in Cancer group is all well and good but I salute the sun every morning and the young are about that sun rising every day. I love them and I give thanks for them because I am getting too old to create the future. These young ones are not frittering their lives away no matter how it might appear from the distance.

Well I was happy to stand up for these young ones who are so sophisticated about relationships and interactions and especially about the diversity of the planet. I do remember my elders being in a state of despair over the hippies and the anti-war types of which I was both.