This Generation

Generation X, Y, or Z.

They probably aren't interested in the presidential campaign, or voting, for that matter.

I wouldn't count on them to be at the public rally at 23500 West 7 Mile Road, Detroit, 48219,  September 23 at 3:30 pm hosted by the Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSESmi@mosesmi.org), entitled, Fire of Faith: Rekindling Democracy.

Or, at a Catholic RCIA/C growth group for recovering the beatitudes, or coping with attachment disorders (addictions), or viewing Nick Nolte's "Peaceful Warrior" startings September 10 in Sacred Heart Church (lower level) and continuing on Mondays through Pentecost Sunday in June of 2013, at 18430 Utica Road at Gratiot in Roseville, MI., 586 777 9116.


I bet they meet online, on the U Tube, or Tweet, for sure, however.


Good for them.

But physical presence to one another, unless sciping is considered visual, is so vital to ongoing relationships that grow and foster, no?

I would like to include them and invite them October 22nd at 5-7 pm for a town-hall-like session 50 years since the start of the ecumenical Vatican Council II that I know they were not around, or, even a thought in their parents eyes who may not have even met yet in October, 1962, when this historic council called for "full, active and conscious" participation and a collaborative, and, an engaging Catholic Church. THe council invited all the charisms and gifts of people to be employed.  How are we doing People of God?  Are your gifts engaged, solicited, asked for?  Or, are you feeling excluded?

Are we there yet Generation X?

You see, I'm of the babyboomer generation when babies were booming the way Muslims now are fruitufl and procreate as the Good Book suggests.

Boomers from 1946-64 began the rejection and redefinition of traditional values.

Boomers consider them "special" as my boss' aide must have when he worked out a "special assignment," cryptic as that seems, withe me for the AOD,.MI.

Drastic social change came with my generation with experimental, go-it-alone, free spirited, cause oriented, caught up in modern marvels like technology, and the first to grow up with TV, a man on the moon, a Cold War era, risk of draft in Vietnam with my brother killed there with 58,000 others, let alone all the South Vietnamese, the start of the women's movement in '68, the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and much more.

I'm not sure what we're leaving is a legacy of dignity and worth, is it generaton X,Y, and Z?

But, I think Vatican II's countercultural call of the Church, a good thing, is directed to boomers, and, is a call to all people, no?

Perhaps the unique boomer subcultures of the Beats and Hippies, to name a couple, will recall.