My name is Rodrigo Tuma and there's a quote that I love and I don't think it's accurate

but I love it anyway.

It's attributed to Cicero who was a Roman statesman and auretor about 2200 years ago and here's

the quote, times are bad, children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing

a book.

You could perhaps say that everybody has a podcast these days.

But why I like it is because what it highlights is the fact that it can always feel in the

moment that the distance between yourself and another generation is huge but what this

quote is indicating is that that sense of distance between one generation and another

is as old as humanity.

This is why by Brenda Cardenas.

At dusk we pulled and shoved a patio table beneath Cousin's bedroom window.

And yoned a lot as we sat on the couch with her dad pretending to not off to the evening

news.

I almost said it's been a long day but realized that would be too much 17 year old going

on 50 for uncle to believe.

We snuck off to bed where we changed into patch to Levi's marijuana pickers local number

13 t-shirts and earth shoes.

I slid out the window first almost toppling the table with my clumsy landing, Cousin behind

me already laughing to the park for a weekly search crossing fingers that someone had

dropped their bag of weed or flicked their fat joint when the cops circled for the second

time.

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