Transparency. Truth. Growing Up. Sunday After Coffee.
Posted in Mein Leben on 01. Jun, 2008
I’ve been lax on blogging lately. It’s probably because there are a lot of things on my mind I just don’t know how to express properly in typed words on a screen. I’ll probably announce some stuff on Tuesday, and then just let the chips fall where they may. The bottom line I guess is, honesty is always the best policy, so expect some truth and transparency on Tuesday. For better or worse.
Why Tuesday? Well, I’m leaving first thing in the morning on Monday to go meetup with the Flobots in Cincinnati. I’ve had my head down working on some things for them behind the scenes. I know it might sound odd, but it’s like I’ve found “my people” — Very like-minded artists, and a lot of thoughts and actions are clicking. It really has me thinking outside the box for the first time in a long time on a lot of issues. Not to mention, their album, “Fight with Tools”, I was thinking last night in my kitchen while pouring myself a Guinness… it’s like the soundtrack to how my soul has been feeling.
Kids are now officially OUT OF SCHOOL… this is going to be a different summer, I can already tell. The kids want to get out and be active– now there’s talks of wanting to go to this park or that park around town to play with friends… Maybe I’m just over protective of them, but I worry to death about letting them go and not being watched constantly. When I was their age, not THAT long ago, I would go ALL OVER the place. I’d enter the woods early in the morning and not return until the evening… I’d climb trees to the “tippy tops” and sway in the breeze…. And it’s not that I had bad parental supervision, it’s just that times were different somehow. Many people my age attest to this in conversation. Why has the world changed? What caused that? Fear? — Well, I know that I worry about my kids. I’d never want them doing the crazy things I did when I was their age. — Oh dear. I sound like a grown up. 
I can sympathize. I’d never dream of letting my daughter stay out unattended the way we did when we were kids. When I was her age, the rule was to be home before the street lamps came on. At least nowadays you can give your kid a cell phone and be able to track them down.
OTOH, I also had much older siblings (Mary is twenty years older than I am) who could have chased me down, and all the neighbors knew who I was and would tell my folks where and when they had seen me. I’m not even sure most of my neighbors know my name, nor that I live where I do, let alone what my daughter might be up to.
That is probably the crux of it. People are less involved and not interested in being part of a community now than it was when we were kids. I blame the republicans.