dec 10 20222

ii never had so many responses to aN EMAIL BEFORE - MANY REINFORCING MY TENDENCY TO TELL PEOPLE TO "F" OFF... BUT FAR TOO MANY WITH COMMENTS ABOUT THE DREARY IGNORANCE OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION TOWARD ELDERS.. GRACIOUS LIVING IS GONE...POLITICALLY CORRECT MAY KEEP YOU OUT OF TROUBLE ON FACEBOOK, BUT GENERIC MANNERS ARE GONE. IN THE PAST 30 YEARS NOT ONE PERSON HAS OFFERED ME A SEAT ON THE SUBWAY-- 'C OURSE I HAVE NOT RIDDEN THE SUBWAY IN 30 YEARS... BUT I KNOW THAT CONCEPT IS GONE. IF I DO LAND ON THE SUBWAY I WOULD HAVE TO PLUNK MY REAR ON SOMEONE'S LAP... (I WILL CHOOSE CAREFULLY)

THE COMMENT THAT WIPED MY SLATE CLEAN... IS A PERSONAL ONE. from my teenage years.... 

MY FATHER TOLD ME A REAL MAN WOULD NEVER LET HIS WOMAN WALK ON THE OUTSIDE WHEN GOING DOWN THE SIDEWALK-- AND YESTERDAY IN ONE OF THOSE EMAILS WAS... "I BET YOUNG BOYS DON'T EVEN KNOW TO WALK ON THE. OUTSIDE..."  I ALWAYS NOTICE A MAN WALKING ON THE INSIDE AND WILL 100% THINK "JERK"  

WALKING DOWN SIDEWALKS ISN'T DONE VERY MUCH IN IPSWICH... BUT "IN THE CITY" YOU CAN NOT GET AWAY FROM SIDEWALKS--- RUNNING BETWEEN SUBWAY STOPS OR BUILDINGS-- AND I WATCH.........

GRACIOUS LIVING--- DOES NOT HAVE A DEFINITE DEFINITION ... POLITICALLY CORRECT WILL NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF IT.

I REMember. colby college--- they tried to instill some conscious thought-- and wednesday evening meals were to be gracious living-- and we were to wear "stockings and heels". which fell way short of what the college had in mind- as student appeared in ripped shorts in stockings and heels..

let me try again... you may be politically correct with your nose in your cell. phone but gracious living takes eye contact.