I am a not a Boomer, not technically. I was born just before the era so I must be different? Well, since I cannot figure out what a Boomer really is, I can’t quite tell. But I can say that my life was driven, at an early age by caring about what was happening around me. happening to women; to the disenfranchised and to the world. Cared enough to fight for change and put myself out where I could be seen and be heard.
I would never say that it didn’t count for anything but it sure hasn’t made the changes I expected. Particularly among women. I fully expected the women of my generation to have taken many positions of power and to have shared in the decisions that effect our lives. But, alas, it has not happened. We have few seats at the table. And most of them did not come by invitation.
The country and the culture has suffered at the lack of our talent and our insights. Many women of my generation realize – we are the group that carved out the 60’s pre boomer and post boom. I look around and see the same qualities of strenghth in women that I admired throughout the time and now a sense of sadness that never have so many done so much for so little.
The battle is not lost even though I, for one, do not have the energy and fire I started with. But I retain the passion and I have gotten some REAL wisdom. I play different these days.
