In this together
The years before we were born seem antiquated and old-fashioned. I can prove this by people posting things on Marketplace from the 90s and calling them vintage. Other evidence: in spite of the 70s ending only 5 months before I was born, that decade has always seemed impossibly distant to me in culture and time: vintage. The clothes seemed funny, the attitudes strange, the music from some other planet, the worldview lightyears in the distance. Yet everyone else who had been on earth before me knew good and well that those things had only just occurred. Those years were a part of everyone else’s frame around reality. However, without having been there myself, they always belonged to someone else. Of course it’s the same way for those who are younger than you. As the elder in the room, though, you realize how truly close those times are, even if they seem so distant and strange to, say, your niece or your little cousin or your younger sibling. Or your child. There’s no way to tell them th...
