When I was born my grandfathers were 42 and 45 and I saw them a total of 3 times after i turned 5 and I saw my grandmothers once every other year. To me grandparents are just people who live a thousand miles away.
We are witnessing the end of grandparents as we know them.
Children in the 1970s & 80s knew their grandparents as capable middle-aged adults in their 40s and 50s.
Children in the very near future will only know their grandparents as elderly geriatrics, if at all.
@robstersauce@PlisskenPatriot Stomp Clap is already back. Noah Kahan is the obvious example there but a lot of modern "alt-country" is just stomp clap.
My fellow Brits are so bad at slagging off American food.
Grits. Grits exists. And it's not some weird thing, it's literally on breakfast menus all over the South.
Next time they come for Beans on Toast, just start replying with a photo of Grits.
Every time I go back to visit my family in Missouri, I feel an unsettling amount of guilt in my bones when I return to California. Every part of me wishes I hadn’t created this permanent fracture between us, separated by miles of mountains, plains, highways, and stars. It’s an inner-conflict I will probably never quite shake. Still, I know they are happy for me. I know they are proud of the woman I’ve become. I just miss them.
“I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can’t forgive the way they rob me
Of my childhood souvenirs
Memories that can’t be boughten
Can’t be won at carnivals for free
Well, it took me years to get those souvenirs
And I don’t know how they slipped away from me”
-John Prine