Time:  that enchanter
who does not enchant 
(especially as one gets older).

-Lily H.

Our generation...the young generation

Our generation wanted to challenge convention.   The young generation today wants to enshrine it.

You can't know in advance the answer.

-Lily H.

"Are you a Republican?"

I keep getting asked

"Are you a Republican?"

(a reflex question a Seattleite poses about something s/he does not understand and/or is not interested in hearing)

when I beg to diverge from liberal orthodoxy in Seattle, my hometown.

We baby-boomers believed in the idea of diversity before it became ossified into liberal catechism and conformity.

Buried alive, Very alive

What we bury alive, we may think we will never hear from or see again, but we could be, on that count, quite mistaken, especially when it is ourselves we bury.
-Lily H.

Since when did being a liberal mean...

Since when did being "a liberal" obligate me to renounce and throw away a self-critical faculty to see myself, warts and all, in the mirror?
-Lily H.