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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Shot Across my Boomer Bow | Lefty Parent

Shot Across my Boomer Bow | Lefty Parent:


Shot Across my Boomer Bow

I think there are way too few conversations going on between us Baby Boomers and our kids’ generation about our commonalities and areas of divergence and friction. Given that, when our young adult son Eric posted a link on Facebook the other day with the following intro…
Everyone should read (and share) this. Everyone.
Followed by posting a provocative quote from the linked piece…
“From every corner of the institutional spectrum, the whole of American society has been rearranged so that the limits of vision coincide exactly with the death of the Boomers.”
I took notice!
Eric, now 26, has emerged from his youth into adulthood as a thoughtful person not prone to hyperbole, and someone I (biased perhaps) would consider a thoughtful spokesperson for his circle of young adult peers and his