Reading this prompts me to say that elders need to share what they’ve learned, from wisdom to how to change a tire, hook up auxiliary energy sources, how to survive by foraging, prepare them for a life with a continuing slow descent in quality of infrastructure and abundant supply chains we have become accustomed to assuming would ALWAYS exist for us and our descendants. We have all learned how to do things. How can we pass this knowledge onto our young because they WILL have it harder than us.

I’ve watched only ONE movie, and I can’t remember its name, that attempted to capture the slow changes of collapse and the realization of a generation that they were seeing the “highest” in convenience living they as a society would enjoy. Slowly more will be and fall into the margins. We cannot ASSUME our young will just pick up skills with the descent. How can we as elders be more intentional? Where are you with your grieving?