Our current tradition for Thanksgiving\nis to go to a dear friends house and enjoy her delicious food. This\nhas been going on several years now; and in addition to a marvelous\nmeal we also have the privilege of visiting some of her grandchildren\nand their parents. Holy MOLY time is flying!! We remember when they\nwere babies, and now the oldest is 18!! We don’t see them very\noften, but the bond of love is very strong and it’s always very\nenjoyable to see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The youngsters all know to expect me to\nbe silly, and I try never to disappoint. Hey, that’s just the kind\nof guy I am! Even though this body of mine is much older than\ncompost, the brain in my head bone still seems to want to convince me\nthat I’m still a youngster. Not sure what 65 is supposed to feel\nlike, but I’ve been there for a while and the brain continues to\nthink it isn’t real. However, the body reminds me that it is very\n<\/strong><\/em>real.\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just\nlike an old fart, though, I delved into some probing conversation\nwith these fine young people. \u201cHow’s school? Any idea what you\nwant to do after you graduate? What kind of music to you like?\u201d \nYou know, grandpa stuff (OK, maybe I really am\n<\/strong><\/em>old).\n As far as music goes, I like to think of myself as a person who\nenjoys something of a broad spectrum of genres. You\nknow, stuff like folk, rock, bluegrass, classical, and maybe a little\nbit of country. Not too much country please. I can’t help it, I’m\nan old rocker. Anyway, thinking maybe I could find some newer music\nas common ground, I asked, \u201cdo you like Imagine Dragons?\u201d The\noldest young lady replied, \u201cyeah, but they’re no longer relevant.\u201d\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHmmm… no longer relevant!!\u201d I\nthought to myself. Wow. In my day, that would have come out as,\n\u201cyeah, man, they’re not cool anymore.\u201d Anyway, in a desperate\nattempt to pull out of the cultural nosedive, I smirked and asked,\n\u201cever heard of The Beatles?\u201d They chuckled a bit and the oldest\nagain replied, \u201cyeah my boyfriend used to listen to The Beatles.\u201d\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n That was comforting…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, OK, I admit it!! I’m OLD!!<\/strong><\/em> And I don’t mind!! Still, there really is comfort to be had that at least something<\/strong><\/em> from \u201cthe old days\u201d is still relevant. I’m beginning to wonder if The Beatles will become the classical music of the future. People will be listening to \u201cHere Comes The Sun\u201d to soothe their nerves after a hard day of hustle and bustle; much in the same way we might listen to some Mozart or Brahms. Oh wait, I do that now!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hip,\ngroovy, and cool have become sick, dope, and (maybe) now relevant. \nAll are fleeting. It will be interesting to see what those\nadjectives will morph into during the coming decades. Might be fun\nto try an experiment. As I’m typing this, I’m thinking how much fun\nit could be to get 3 or 4 youngsters to use a new word to describe\nsomething that’s \u201crelevant;\u201d and then ask them to use the\nexpression regularly for a month or so. Perhaps something like, \u201chey\nguys!! Look at this new iPhone!! It’s a total barf park!!\u201d Or\nhow about, \u201cthat new Bruno Mars song really smokes my socks!!\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n OK maybe not. Doesn’t matter anyway because as the folks in Tower of Power would say, \u201cwhat’s hip to day, might become pass\u00e9.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n