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In reply to the discussion: I'm a hard person to love these days and I'll tell you why [View all]ancianita
(36,023 posts)56. I don't know you at all, but you seem to be someone who truly knows we're not our circumstances.
And so, more than most, you can open up that heart and keep looking around. You will see what your grandchildren gravitate to. Keep in mind that the world has changed in ways we couldn't have imagined in our own youth, and trust that your grandkids' futures will be wonderful in similarly unexpected ways even as we have to let our world go and never see theirs.
My daughter just showed my grandson Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. Said it was perfect for this nine year-old. Feed children visions and they try to make them real in their lives.
You've a great heart. Cry your heart out. Keep your eyes on the stars. Keep letting go.
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I wonder what your intent is with your post. Tell me you are not chastising the OP author.
rhett o rick
Feb 2015
#5
I don't know you at all, but you seem to be someone who truly knows we're not our circumstances.
ancianita
Feb 2015
#56
I too, was stuck sick by the realization of what is and what could have been
Half-Century Man
Feb 2015
#7
I was at a family dinner table with some old friends quite a number of years ago..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#32
I know plenty of young people. I don't see what you do, particularly once they settle down,
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#53
I am close with a good deal of young people whose energy, strength, and stability provides me much
appalachiablue
Feb 2015
#63
Do you know that MLK all but ordered Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show after the first season?
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#19
I sadly concur. Today's Republican Party is hell-bent on destroying the planet. And the DEMS are
blkmusclmachine
Feb 2015
#45
The weather has been either wet and cold, icy or frigid so I haven't ridden much lately
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#50
Hang in there my little green friend. The future is us. It is always within us to remake it.
leveymg
Feb 2015
#52
I think trade is a necessity, it's been going on for as long as we have been humans..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#59
"illegitimati non carburundum" (VERY bastardized latin for "don't let the bastards grind
niyad
Feb 2015
#78
There have been times when I have had doubts that there would be a better future...
1monster
Feb 2015
#85