Changes on The Drive
February 1, 2021For ten years now, my Changes on the Drive column has always been published on the first morning of each month. However, have you looked out the window lately?
I’m feeling way too old and feeble to be tramping about in this weather, and so I will wait until Wednesday when we are supposed to get some sunny breaks.
Generation Home-Bodies
February 1, 2021I have finally gotten around to examining the 20 Striking Findings of 2020 from Pew Research. The one that really intrigued me was the finding that 52% of US adults aged between 18 and 29 were living with their parents in June 2020.
I suppose it is reasonable to assume that the growth in this percentage from February 2020 to June was the result of the covid-19 pandemic and the economic dislocation that it caused. However, as someone who left home at age 16 in 1966, I was stunned to see the steady and continual rise from the 1960 through to today. It seems that neither times of economic prosperity nor those of recession have affected this climb away from independence in the young.
A survey last July showed a similar situation in Canada, though the historical dimension was missing from the data.
I have a suspicion that the increase in the cost of housing will account for much of this; plus my guess that advanced education (with its associated costs) is more widely shared than in earlier decades. Perhaps the post-boomer generations are getting married (or attached as couples) later. Any other thoughts?
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Poem: Midnight Snack
February 1, 2021
It’s 2am and the furnace
of our passion
is cooling slowly
we rise, tottering together,
arms entwined,
to the kitchen kissing
after making love
we make toast
thick with butter oozing
rich strawberry jam
streaked liked blood
or rust on a fence rich
as sweet love’s triangle:
you and me and toast
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