A few days ago, I had a conversation with two younger coworkers that ended with me feeling much older than my age. To them, Kurt Cobain had always been dead, and one of them did not remember Harry Carey.
The phrase “It could be, it might be, it’s caught by the shortstop,” should be in everyone’s lexicon
I’m sitting here writing this post from my table in a coffee shop that is scheduled to close down in a few short weeks. It is a major chain. Meg worked for this chain in a location that’s already been closed for quite a few months. Change in the name of progress is severely limiting my coffee variety.
The world spins whether you want it to or not. All of this has me thinking about how I will have to explain the world to my son as he gets older:
• The names Derrick Rose, Patrick Kane and Paul Konerko could all be distant memories.
• Walter Payton, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Andre Dawson may as well be Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Bob Love and Dick Butkus.
• The Chicago Bears used to be called the Monsters of the Midway. That nickname came when playing defense meant something.
• The Chicago Blackhawks are still the only Chicago sports team to have won a championship in your lifetime.
• There used to be many different places you can buy a cup of coffee. Today, there is Starbucks.
• The day that Kennedy was shot, and September 11 are equally foreign concepts.
• This is the new Rolling Stones album. Yes, they used to make music in the 1960s, when grandma and grandpa were young. No, Keith Richards isn’t dead yet.
• I don’t know what the World Series is. I’m a Cubs fan.
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