Yes, there is a generation between Gen-X and Millennials called Xennials. Who knew? I found this conversation printed in the SF Weekly between two Xennials interesting. Let’s take one comment that struck me as true – sort of, the Wuhan Plague has been called the Boomer Remover. The Plague did off the elderly, but were they really “boomers”?…actually if you do the math, boomers would be 74 or younger – born in 1946 or later…since the average age of those dying of the Wuhan plague is 84 – they are technically not Boomers, but between the Greatest Generation and Boomers. I still call them the Greatest Generation.
I have a slightly different perspective from the Xennials and their commentary below. Some of it I found amusing, most of it disturbing for the simple reason that I feel they have been indoctrinated to dismiss our Judeo-Christian religion and heritage and by too many years in Government schools, they have replaced it with what I call the religion of Global Warming Hoax, the Wuhan Plague Hoax, and other Progressive-Regressive doctrines and religions that leads only to one thing – tyranny and anarchy. Yes, even their activism in hating our religious heritage, atheism tied with Marxism/Progressiveism becomes THEIR religion.
Of course, to them, we have destroyed the planet, are irredeemable racists, war mongers – essentially all those things that Saul Alinsky put into his tactical masterpiece Rules for Radicals. Do most of these fine productive Xennials consider themselves radicals? Probably not. But indoctrinated and brainwashed they are. And if the boomers have a real fault, it is not the heritage of the Viet Nam war, because to a large extent we can blame some holdovers from the Greatest Generation (Kennedy’s evil Sec Defense McNamara) for convincing us early on that Domino Effect and the scourge of Global Communism was to be fought over there or like dominoes countries would fall and we’d be fighting them here. Absurd.
The real fault was allowing the illiberal left and Democrats to control our education system. The threat of tyrannical socialism and Communism did not come from far off places like Korea or Viet Nam. The threat was in the Marxist doctrine that was inculcated in our state run so-called public schools and Universities. Year after year the far left got more and more control. They did a way with school prayer. They did a way with the pledge of allegiance. They took the 10 Commandments from public buildings. They pushed one Marxist or progressive idea after another, until after a couple of decades, the positive aspects of the Civil Rights movement had been undone by the Marxists that took over our K-12 schools and Universities and all whites were racists and war mongers – even if only a small percentage of the white population was truly racist or believe in endless wars.
Sadly, I doubt that either of these very bright Xennials have actually read our founding documents, though I’m sure they saw the musical Hamilton. I still don’t get the casting of a Puerto Rican in the lead role, but I digress. An interesting fact about Hamilton’s nemesis Aaron Burr (one of the Xennials is named Aaron – coincidence I’m sure), is that HE is the reason that Jefferson initiated and signed the Insurrection Act. Why is that important? Well, because today, after months of being locked down and told to wear masks and shelter-in-place and keep a minimum of 6 feet distance apart – we have had two types of protests where NO ONE is sheltering in place or keeping a safe distance and the few that wear masks are almost comical – except on the thugs who are throwing Molotov cocktails or looting. To me, one of the protests is understandable. Governors putting the screws to their citizens, not allowing them on to sunny beaches when it is 80 to 90 degrees, boaters told they cannot boat, parishioners told they cannot go to church and orthodox Jews told they cannot congregate for a funeral. Petty dictators. Predictable outcomes. And though these have been ENTIRELY peaceful protests. Not one person was harmed. Not one building was destroyed. Not one object was stolen. The corrupt media showed pictures of men in camouflage with their rifles and assumed we were heading for mass anarchy. Of course, it was completely peaceful, but the press did their best to scare the peace-loving left.
And then we have the George Floyd death. A Black man was brutalized by a white police officer in Minnesota and tape of the officer with his knee of the neck of Floyd was hard to watch and certainly the perfect catalyst for those waiting for such an event to rile up the people. The Democrat mayor and his police chief did nothing for days. There were protests. That’s what they called them. But they were not peaceful. They were actually very violent riots, looting and anarchy. City after city. Minneapolis, DC, LA, Chicago, Atlanta, NY…all the same common denominator – all Democrat controlled. All where the police were either de-balled, kept from acting or undermanned and overrun by the criminals from Antifa and Black Lives Matters and local winos and thugs recruited from the black ghettos to destroy their local businesses and steal anything and everything they could carry.
The media did its best to call this anarchy “protests” and to justify the violence. We had democrat politicians capitulating to Antifa and BLM by taking a knee and asking for absolution for being White. Yes, this was about racism. The racism of the illiberal left, where only white people are racists, and that for the sin of their skin color they could not control, white people must pay reparations for the sin of slavery and segregation and the greatest sin of all – for being White.
Of course, this is absurd. About 300,000 white Northerners died freeing the black slaves during our civil war. Thousands of white men and women fought the segregationists and our Constitution was changed with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to not only free slaves, but give them citizenship. And about 50 years ago we passed the Civil Rights Act that have helped to enforce desegregation and give opportunities to blacks that were denied them. And affirmative action, though overused, gave millions of blacks educational and economic opportunities their fathers and grandfathers could only dream about. And this culminated with our first Black president in a country that was still about 70% white.
So, lots of white people voted for who they thought was the best person for the highest job in the land, even though to me it was quite plain that Barack Hussein Obama was not really much more than a smooth-talking Community Organizer, a descendant of the Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky. And much of the racial discord we have today was reinforced by Obama and those who follow the Alinsky ideology – rules for radicals that include violence, intimidation and extortion to make sure that the Middle-Class white “racists” and “war mongers” pay.
You see, this is what the illiberal left is really all about – making the middle class pay. Notice that the very wealthy white democrat politicians that took a knee in solidarity with the anarchists – are quite fine with the violence because it helps them keep power and control. These white frauds of the Democrat Party don’t pay by all of this violence. They are rewarded with more power and control.
So let me try to tie it together with my original comments. Back to Burr. He was quite an ambitious and an unscrupulous fellow. After he killed Hamilton – who by the way, was a significant contributor the Federalist Papers – which gave us our Constitution – Burr put together a rather complicated plot to invade Mexico and then take over the newly acquired Louisiana territory. Quite a fascinating plot and a major change of history if Burr would have been able to pull it off. But this where the Insurrection Act comes into play. Jefferson signed it into law, used the military to foil Burr’s plot and save the Union.
But the Insurrection Act is not some relic that has never been used like the Logan Act. Lincoln, used the same Insurrection Act to justify the Civil War. Grant after the war used the Insurrection Act to enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to not only free slaves but to make sure they were given citizenship. Then in 50s and 60s, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson all used the act to quell the riots associated with the segregationists in the South. And the act was last invoked by HW Bush during the LA riots in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict where those cops who beat him were acquitted.
How is this all relevant today? Trump has called out troops in DC to protect Federal property that HAS been desecrated by the mobs of Antifa and BLM. To the corrupt media, these domestic terrorists and anarchists are to be praised. And we even have a plucked from obscurity Defense chief and former Generals all criticizing Trump’s proposal to use troops to quell the anarchy going in our major cities surrounding this one black man’s tragic death.
What should be going on is the media focusing on the real cause of the riots. Indoctrination for decades. Bad social policies like the Great Society that funneled billions of dollars with little impact as the black family was torn apart. Policies like welfare that rewarded black families for being unmarried, rewarding black mothers with more welfare for each child born out of wedlock. In the end, this made things worse. The poverty of the single mother raising a black boy without a parent is so plainly the root cause of the drugs, the gun violence in the black community – not racism.
In the last 50 years since the Civil Rights Act, with affirmative action and things that quite frankly discriminated against whites and Orientals – blacks and Hispanics were given special treatment in order to push their advancement. And a great many took advantage of this. But affirmative action and billions of dollars did not solve the problem of black men deserting their children and forcing black women to raise their black sons in poverty.
But that is not discussed by the media. When a Conservative or even that rare black Conservative mentions this, it is ignored or that black conservative is called an Uncle Tom. Why senile Joe just told blacks you are not black if you don’t vote for him. Huh? That’s where things are. One black man, high on drugs, who may or may not have had a precondition, is brutalized by a white cop on tape, and dies and all hell breaks loose. Many cops have been injured and several have died. Many thousands of businesses have been burned, looted and destroyed. Yet in the Black community, daily, children and babies are killed by stray bullets from Black men high on drugs or in gang wars. Not a peep. No protests for them.
And in the conversation about the lock down below there’s banter about the need for Universal Health care. No discussion about how you pay for it or what that actually means. For example, we already have over half of America’s healthcare socialized and the VA and Medicaid are not very good rife with either inefficiencies or inadequate care. Medicare which is running out of funding as the boomers age (so perhaps boomer removers is not just a joke but an actual plot) is the only socialized program that seems to have quality healthcare. So, the left has glommed onto the notion of Medicare for All. Huh? Medicare for those over 65 is already hanging by a thread financially, so adding another 250 million people is going to do what exactly? Anyone with a scintilla of logic knows it will be nothing more than a poor imitation of Medicaid – what I call Mediocre Care for All.
And then there’s this absurdity of the Green New Deal. Books have been written that the New Deal was not the real reason the Great Depression ended, but in many ways only extended it. Not to be totally negative, without any safety net, there was real suffering for a large chunk of our country, and FDR’s New Deal programs for good or bad survive to this day and still act as a safety net for many of us – especially boomers.
This cute discussion below between two Xennials is rather depressing. To me as Boomer, these are very bright good “kids” doing some good things. They seem to be doing their best to raise a boy with two parents (actually three since the bio-dad also participates and for what it is worth I understand he’s of mixed race), so the odds that their son will have opportunities to prosper looks pretty good. Aaron helping those at the bottom is certainly a noble gesture, but I doubt how much good he can do when the politicians seem to waste millions of dollars on programs that don’t work and the end result is needles, feces and urine in the streets of the city that used to be the most beautiful city in America. I know for a fact that they want to move out to the suburbs and Alex was actually not born in SF but was born in Santa Barbara which is pretty idyllic with its glorious beaches and iconic Spanish architecture, but she likes the sound of saying she’s a SF native. Go figure.
Quarantine Thoughts: Apocalypse & Chill
A San Francisco couple share their late-night banter on child-rearing and staying sane during a pandemic.
by Alexandra Liss • 06/05/2020 8:30 am – Updated 06/05/2020 11:55 am
Aaro, with Téo, and Alexandra are partners and San Francisco natives. (Photo: Alexandra Liss)
Aaron John Brown and Alexandra Liss are partners who live together in Hayes Valley with two-year-old, Téo.
John Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works in the Tenderloin. He grew up in the Mission and Excelsior.
Liss grew up in North Beach. She is a Video Editor for local political campaigns, such as Mental Health SF and Progressive Supervisors Matt Haney and Hillary Ronen.
Like many bay natives they grew up in the same city and even attended the same high school briefly, but never met until dating.
Alex has spent the last several months homeschooling Téo and attempting to edit videos during his naptime. Aaron, meanwhile, has been in and out of meetings and sessions. As such, they don’t have much time to talk until late at night.
On one such recent late-night rap session, they decided to take notes on their banter. The following is an approximation of their conversation — edited for clarity, concision, and to maximize the lulz, of course.
Alex: Aaron and Alexandra — we’re like Siskel and Ebert, but instead of rating movies, we just judge people.
Aaron: … And the dystopian feature film that is our lives during the coronavirus.
Alex: To be fair, this city was in major need of a Lysol wipe-down prior to COVID-19.
Aaron: Very true. Though thanks to shelter-in-place, the apocalypse has been a bit anticlimactic. The George Floyd riots are way more intense.
Alex: We’ve had a few friends of friends get sick, but really, I find it’s been more of a magnifier of our life conditions beneath the surface personally to politically! If you were vulnerable on the streets before, now you’re critically exposed. If you were feeling financial instability, now you’re really desperate.
Aaron: If you were rich… Oh wait — you’re somehow getting massive bailouts and still profiting?!
Alex : Precisely, boo…. I thought there was going to be all this downtime, but I haven’t had a moment to myself between a needy toddler, a demanding job, and trying to make time with my soulmate.
Aaron: Wait, which one am I?
Alex: Funny.
Aaron: On a lighter note, the city does feel a lot like when all the transplants leave for Burning Man and give us our city back. For those of us who grew up in the Excelsior or the Sunset, the streets don’t look much more empty than before this pandemic…
Alex: Heyyy, I was one of those people who went to the desert five years in a row. You make fun of Burners, but it’ll change your life.
Aaron: Shelter-in-place will change your life. Burning Man will get you an STD.
Alex: See, that must be part of that 2 percent we didn’t match on OkCupid.
Aaron: Touché… Ah I’m hungry. I want to order delivery but I don’t want to support any more of these tech companies like Uber Eats, Postmates making bank off making an app and being the middleman. I would if only these 20th century corporations could catch up with 18th century labor laws, that would be great.
Alex: It’s after curfew anyway… Maybe Airbnb could pay some taxes to fix the damage they did to the housing market.
Aaron: My little brother’s doing well as a delivery man for Postmates. Years of smoking weed and playing Call of Duty all day and when duty finally called — da-da-da-da! Fuckin’ Postmates man. I knew that motherfucker was essential!
Alex : We are seriously lucky we haven’t lost anyone to the virus yet and to still have a semblance of our jobs during all this. My colleagues who shoot and edit film lost their entire life savings and business in a matter of days. It’s devastating.
Aaron: We lost a lot more folks to the tech-pocalypse than corona so far. Those are the boarded up windows I remember.
Alex: Yeah, the virus called gentrification.
Aaron: Preach… In other news,poor and homeless people are finally recognized by the rich as people now that they’re potential carriers. They’re starting to rethink universal health care now that they realize that we are going to take them down with us. And it looks like the Boomers — who thought they were leaving us with the bill on global warming — might be rethinking this whole mess they were hoping to skip out on.
Alex: I heard someone refer to this virus as the “Boomer Remover.”
Aaron: Sweet Jesus, that’s cold.
Alex: Cold as the polar ice caps used to be before the Boomers ignored global warming??
Aaron: Sick burn, planet… but no, that’s just wrong.
Alex: Why don’t you grow a man bun to wipe your polar ice cap melting tears?
Aaron: I resent your patriarchal undertones. My moms would disapprove.
Alex: That’s why I love you. So can we talk about the silver living of this painful shelter-in-place order? First, I’m loving how the rental market is plummeting! Rents for a one-bedroom apartment dropped 9.4 precent in San Francisco compared with May of 2019.
Aaron: Poor chad.
Alex: Or Bryan with a Y or whatever a typical tech founder’s name is…
Aaron: (Getting a glimpse of himself in the mirror) at least you didn’t attempt to cut your hair yourself like I did. Everyone’s walking around with “Karen” haircuts trying to fight with the corona managers.
Alex: I think San Francisco is realizing how much we outsource and don’t know how to do for ourselves. I know people who don’t know how to cut their own nails without a nail lady present.
Aaron: Well, maybe that one person on BART who always seems to be clipping their toenails can teach them.
Alex: That gross babe… but seriously, I heard global Co2 emissions are projected to go down 8 percent this year due to the economy halting a bit.
Aaron: That’s huge.. We should “apocalypse” more often. I think my favorite silver lining is that 8,000 homeless people were promised hotel rooms in SF.
Alex: Mine too! I just imagine when this is all over, how are we supposed to put these people back on the streets? If housing our homeless, which has haunted us since we’ve been alive, can be achieved finally, that will be life and city-altering.
Aaron: I’ve been a social worker and organizer in the Tenderloin now for 15 years, and the mayor’s count wouldn’t even admit there were more than 6,000 homeless people for decades. There were 15,000 before the crisis according to the Coalition on Homelessness.
Alex: Wow. Just wow.
Aaron: (Checks phone) Sigh… Looks like that promise is already being cancelled. Human Services has housed around 2,000 out of the promised 8,000 so far, but the mayor seems to be changing her tune on fulfilling the rest of the commitment.
Alex: What??
Aaron: Did you know that before the crisis SF alone had over 36,000 empty apartment units due to price gouging and Airbnb?
Alex: How is that even possible?
Aaron: Landlords would rather hold onto their units than rent them for affordable prices, especially with our rent control laws. Those are 36,000 empty units sitting empty for the taking. And they’re probably all listed and geotagged on Airbnb. “Hey Alexa, how much are crowbars on Amazon?”
Alex: I read that the hotels are costing the city approx $70 a night or an estimated $58 million per month — for a room plus staff for housing the 8,000 homeless. It does sound expensive, until you consider that the city had a property tax surplus of $415 million last year alone.
Aaron: Yeah, baby, tell that to London Greed. She claims they aren’t housing the homeless due to lack of staff and housing options, but what about eminent domain for the currently vacant spaces? The city didn’t care when they bulldozed the Western Addition…
Alex: Which many call “Hayes Valley.” But it didn’t exist when we grew up. Just a huge freeway overpass and a lot of Section 8 housing… right by where London grew up, District 5…
Aaron: She sold out. I guess it’s part of the mayoral job description.
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Just then, Téo, the two-and-a half-year old toddler, comes bow-leggedly crying and screaming into the bedroom. “Milkiesss… I want milkies.” Alex shoots up in an exhausted daze, stumbles into the fridge to grab a bottle of almond “milkies.” She swiftly changes Téo’s diaper and lays him down in his bed, and cuddles next to him to help him fall asleep.
A few minutes later, left arm stuck under a toddler, Alex slyly takes her phone out with her right and scrolls through Facebook. She sees a statistic from the WHO: “Every minute a newborn dies from infection caused by lack of safe water and an unclean environment.”
Alex feels the soft breath of her toddler tickling her chin. She looks at the dozens of sippy cups filled with clear water strewn about the house, finding it jaded that one of her biggest pain points is cleaning up after them. She holds her son closer. Alex lets out a deep sigh and thinks to herself, “These other global diseases really could learn from whomever the coronavirus’ publicist is…”
****
In the next bedroom over, Aaron is also scrolling through Facebook on his iPhone and thinks about his time with the Coalition on Homelessness. One Christmas he dressed as Tiny Tim and handcuffed himself to the Christmas tree in City Hall to make a statement about Gavin Newsom’s winter budget cuts. As he scrolls, he sees a live video streaming on Facebook showing the Coalition on Homelessness protesting in front of Mayor London Breed’s house. Aaron watches diligently as his old crew demand London follow through with housing the homeless, the most vulnerable in this city. Aaron thinks to himself, “if you really want to know what’s going on and how to fix it, always ask them first. The mayor that listens is not only going to solve homelessness, but fix this whole city.”
Alex stumbles back in bed exhausted and finds her way into Aaron’s neck nook.
****
Alex: He’s finally asleep… ughhh I feel awful wanting to vent about our first world problems when we are so fucking lucky in this world, but can we talk about what it’s like to be a Quarantined mom in this city, for a second?
Aaron: Like a dog mom, or human mom?
Alex: I know SF literally has more dogs than children, but let’s talk about the human variety.
Aaron: It’s true, I don’t know how you moms do it all: homeschooling Téo and the neighbor kid, then somehow finding the concentration to edit videos while I’m loudly pacing about doing Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting in the same living room space. Then Téo comes up to you every two minutes asking for Milkies or having a 2-year-old melt-down. It’s intense.
Alex: Like yesterday when I gave Téo a popsicle and then the tip broke…
Aaron: Ah man, that was brutal. He screamed for 20 minutes because the popsicle was broken, yet he would not accept another flavor.
Alex. He can be such a “two-uche bag “ sometimes…
Aaron: But he’s pent up and lacking socialization. I mean, how do you even explain to these young kids who are being isolated from all their friends and maintain some semblance of normalcy?
Alex: Kids are surprisingly resilient and adaptive. Many people mistake Darwin’s Survival of the Fittest theory being about the strongest who survive, but really the key trait to survival he spoke of, was adaptability.
Aaron: That’s right, baby. Kids are adaptable… but to walk past another park, jungle gym and tell Téo he can’t play or touch his friends is heart-wrenching. Then we can get so busy and overwhelmed with life, we’re shoving the very same screens in his face, which back in early March we were trying so hard to minimize.
Alex: That’s why I sneak socially distanced quarantinis on the roof with the two other moms in our building where we let our kids run around as we release our primal screams in the corner. The non-stop multitasking wears on the soul. I got the dirtiest look from a passerby in our building for letting our three kids play together on the roof.
Aaron: The shaming is real! My friend posted a picture with his dog at the beach — not a person in sight, yet the tattle tale social distance police had a field day. It’s like the out-of-work internet trolls have to let out their microaggressions somewhere…
Alex: Yeah, all the Karen’s, man. You think internet trolls are bad, try the mom-shaming culture. Granted these little three-nagers are petri dishes of germs, as parents, we’ve got to help each other take breaks and adhere to smart distancing techniques on top of social distancing.
Aaron: Oh man, I can already feel the internet trolls coming out of their caves for your term “smart distancing.” I can see it in the comments of this article right now.
Alex: See, this is why I didn’t do much of the whole people-thing even pre-quarantine….
Aaron: Are you more of the Zoom type?
Alex: Ahhh! Fuck zoom! If another person sends me another fucking Zoom invite, with their shitty audio and ridiculous AR background… I’m just gonna… jump into the screen and noose myself with the ridiculous, unnecessarily long Zoom link wrapped around my neck.
Aaron: I know, baby, I know. It’s all going to be alright… Can we talk about how social Darwinism is about to turn all the red states blue? Like all the angry evangelicals were like “drill baby drill, let me keep my plastics, we don’t believe in science, we need more guns, we don’t need vaccinations — we’re superior! God will protect us,” and then god was like… “Hold my beer…”
Alex: Speaking of all the Trumpers who went out with their AR-15s to demand that we re-open the economy — they’re all cropping up again, calling the George Floyd protests hypocritical. I just think progressives are more patient. Like… Yeah! We wan’t haircuts, too, but we’re not going to risk our lives for that. Calling attention to institutionalized racism and centuries of police brutality on the other hand… that’s slightly more important than going to the neighborhood watering hole. Know what I’m saying?
Alex: Uhhh it’s just so easy to be wound up! I read somewhere that we’re entering this dreaded third quarter of isolation. Initially we were all panic buying and full of confusion, and then a “honeymoon period” when it felt novel to cook sourdough and be in our pjs… but this third quarter loneliness appears to be a real phenomenon.
Aaron: Yes, it’s real. According to clinical psychologists, there are many studies of people isolated in space or submarines and they found an inflection point where the frustration and hardship of being cooped up inside gets suddenly harder to bear. Interpersonal conflicts correlate with the longer one has been in isolation. Whatever bad coping habits and tics you had before will only be exacerbated as stressors increase. To survive interpersonally we will have to learn better ways to treat each other and tolerate each other either to avoid or as a result of conflict.
Alex: Ooh, I love it when you talk “therapeese” to me.
Aaron: Rawr.
Alex: So yeah, I’m trying to keep it together, but isolation is affecting us all, in such profound ways. I feel like I’m constantly on my period. I’m crying at Geico commercials because I miss going outside… so, so much.
Aaron: But think how much “we could save on car insurance.” Kidding. Maybe, we are watching too much TV.
Alex: I feel ashamed admitting how hard it is. I mean those gun toting protestors hella make me vomit a bit in my mouth, but dang, these social distancing rules are likely to remain in force until at least September or October as a second wave of infections could be triggered if we mix too soon. How are we going to get through this stage three together?
Aaron: Who knows, it could be realistically 18 months? We’re all likely to get pregnant or divorced.
Alex: But were not married yet.
Aaron: Exactly… Talk about sheltering in… placenta.
Alex: That was a good one.
Aaron: Thanks boo.
Alex: Well, maybe this Pandemic isn’t all bad… maybe this time will change the way we all engage with each other…
Aaron: In the way we look at our work… how we treat our homeless and most vulnerable.
Alex: … Our priorities given to the environment and treatment of animals, which cross contamination likely caused all of this…
Aaron: Our priorities on how we treat each other and those we love…
Aaron: Well, interestingly, according to the isolation studies, no matter how hard the expedition was, nearly 100 percent of the astronauts and arctic explorers want to go back into isolation for a second time.
Alex: But if the isolation is so deeply lonely and conflict ridden, how is this so?
Aaron: It’s fascinating, right? The study was by Dr Kimberley Norris, who is an authority on confinement and reintegration. Despite ill ridden times, having the space to sit back and think, also allowed people to figure out what’s important and find value in what the difficult circumstance had taught. Being isolated gives us a better idea of our personal values, and more impetus to act on them…
Alex: I dunno, sounds like a first world luxury.
Aaron: Yeah, we should probably Zoom later and talk about it.
Alex: Fuck off.
Aaron: I’m kidding, I’m kiddding… well, do you think you learned any valuable lessons so far?
Alex: Honestly? I can’t believe I’m saying this but, I think I want to see my parents more. They still live in the Bay and we haven’t seen them since the holidays. This experience has reminded me of their vulnerability and how precious time is.
Aaron: Yeah, it’s been unsettling not knowing when we can get on a plane and be there to see my moms.
Alex: What about you, my love? Being an essential worker, you’re more at risk but also a bit less isolated?
Aaron: Yeah, that helps. But I deal with a lot of “beaurocrazy” and I realize that I want to be making an actual difference versus being in meetings that go in circles and hardly get things done…
Alex: Wow babe, your insight is turning me on.
Aaron: You sweet talker, you…
Aaron places his hand on Alex’s thigh. Alex gives Aaron side-eye with a smirk.
Aaron: … or should I just send you a zoom calendar rendezvous link for another time?
Alex hits him with her pillow as hard as she can.