In my ’80s

Friday, March 30, 2018

Did you read Warren’s response to yesterday’s blog about faith, hope and love?

Here, I do not believe “faith” should be included…am not sure it holds any value-anywhere…why is it viewed as a positive characteristic? Otherwise, “hope” and “love” seems to be a “chicken or the egg” deal. I usually think that love is most fundamental to our well-being but hopelessness is (also) a most debilitating state of being. I cherish 🙂 your thoughts in this regard.

In retrospect, I wish I would have written an introduction to the blog. Something like this:

We who are in our 80’s are made aware every day of the disconnects, not only with adolescents and teenagers, but also with twenty somethings and the productive thirties. I feel the disconnect with my children in the forties and fifties. And while I’m at it, I should mention the sixties and seventies.

I am not able to use two thumbs in pecking out a message on my oh-so-frustrating iPhone. Crossword puzzles that feature pop culture figures leave me searching for another word hobby. I can’t even understand the math exercises for fourth graders.

All of which prompt me to ask what, if anything, connects an infant with a child with an adolescent with a teenager with a twenty something with … an 80 year old? I’m talking about a b-i-g stretch, a stretch capable of not breaking. Something that has the immortal and eternal capability of enduring.

The Apostle Paul suggested three things. William Shakespeare settled on one. Warren, I think, will admit two. I’d rally to the news that there is a fourth.

You may check back to see how I responded to Warren. And then post or email me your response.