The DU Lounge

Nobody has anything to say to each other! The under 40 crowd spend their lives on-line and they don't know how or have forgotten how to have a conversation. After a few seconds they will look at their phone. Are they asking siri what to say to their old Auntie? Or have you reached the end of their attention span?

My own adult children are polite to older relatives and then they find a TV to watch a football game or a Christmas movie that they've seen a dozen times. My sister puts a fireplace video on her TV and there are people at her holiday gathering watching a fake fire on TV! (In all fairness I have been known to sit and watch a fire with a glass of wine in my hand--usually when I'm alone, not when a party is happening!)

Someone in this thread mentioned knitting or crochet---it reminded me of my grandmother. She was a mother of 12 and grandmother of 42 (I don't know how many greats). Anyway, from the time I was very young I remember her sitting in her rocking chair and crocheting. The house would be full of people, the men smoking on the porch, kids running, someone banging the keys on the piano and my grandmother would rock and crochet and smile as she looked on at us all.

Put on your ugly sweater and go to the Christmas celebration--take your knitting or crochet project with you!