The Erosion of American Lives

http://www.sierratimes.com ^ | Feb. 21, 2005 | Nancy Levant

[cubreporter]

Bravo Nancy Levant! Bravo!!!

Listen up people...especially you kids. I wish you could experience the times Nancy speaks of in her article. I KNOW you would be happy as can be.

Let's have faith Nancy...miracles DO happen.

[cubreporter]

No generation griping. Growing up was like Nancy Levant said.

[neutrino]

All true.

[Age of Reason]

For example: 1950's medicine wasn't better.

I'd be willing to take my chances.

[ExpatGator]

I am ragging on him "Chiefspew" and calling him Sparky because his username identifies him as a Masterchief Radioman, U.S. Navy. He would be an E-9 (and apparently used to browbeating instead of leading people), and he should understand the necessity for civility. Regrettably there are those who forget the important lessons of humility that they learned as Seamen, or as chief initiates.

[writer33]

I'd be willing to take my chances.

:)

[writer33]

Regrettably there are those who forget the important lessons of humility that they learned as Seamen, or as chief initiates.

I think you hit the proverbial nail on the head.

[Aliska]

Bump to read tomorrow.

[Old Professer]

Of all these things the author so persuasively writes, a single word describes what has truly been lost and nowhere does she use it - trust!

[Old Professer]

Trite? Yes, but did it ever occur to you that all these generational lamentations might be true? If so, imagine the cumulative loss.

[Old Professer]

For reasons known only to the wordsmiths, catastrophe has no "Y."

[Old Professer]

Essentially a cistern is a gravity filter, one should never disturb the sediment.

[Old Professer]

They proudly showed me their pantry of two serving portions in color coordinated, artistically disobeyed quart jars.

That is a clever phrase, but for me, undecipherable.

[Old Professer]

Silly, you're supposed to wear the onion around your neck and the potato on your belt.

[Old Professer]

Cranky old people aren't born that way.

[Old Professer]

I loved the 60s; I was in Seaside during the Monterey Festival, I still laugh at the excess and imagine some poor soul in tie-dyed T-shirt and Birkenstocks numbly mucking out the long-abandoned stalls.

[Old Professer]

One need be cautious in proclaiming something idiotic beyond comment while actively commenting on that very same thing.

[Old Professer]

All the promise of the Golden years, the reality of the dross, the green-tinged Tinker's brass encircling our gilded wrists, all testament to the dreary drama and boring crisis of each next breath yet breathe we must for someone may be watching.

On perfect days, with sky so blue we slip back within the green glades of early dew and yellow butter-smooth flowers, fields wide and earth deep and wonder what the future holds as life so poignantly and patiently unfolds.

[Old Professer]

Everything I ever needed to know I learned as a Semen.

[1john2 3and4]

I do not believe we are just a bunch of old grumps railing at inevitable change.

The loss of childhood - because predators are not removed from our midst - is truly a tragedy. We do not even know all the consequences yet.