Introducing Gen Alpha.
Yup, Generation Alpha began in 2011 and will include all those born between then and 2025.
This is the generation that, as of now, has no labels. They are not the flower children or the MTV generation, nor are they hipsters. They are yet to be defined.
This is the generation that will never know life without smartphones, selfies, social media, digital music, and live streaming everything...all the time.
This is the generation that, with any luck, will be the one that finds a way to make peace more profitable than war, discovers a way to feed every living soul that roams the planet, finds a way out of this cycle of environmental self-destruction, cures every type of cancer, Alzheimers, MS, diabetes and addiction.
No pressure.
Even if this isn't that generation, it could be the one that replaces tolerance with acceptance, judgment with empathy, violence with kindness.
This generation, more so than any before it, has access to an infinite amount of information. Limitless recourses from which to learn. The ability to gain an education that has no boundaries. Our schools are no longer limited to what lives within the covers of whatever text books the budget will allow. The opportunity for global understanding has never been so attainable.
Imagine a world wherein the generation running it has grown up in a culture of acceptance, kindness, and an unlimited access to education, both formal, and not so formal.
We, the adults, the village, raising this generation, have the opportunity and the responsibility to foster the culture that could encourage Gen Alpha to be the greatest yet.
The future looks bright, all we have to do is allow it.
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In the past week.......
It's been another super busy week at the shop, as the weather has been such that a trip to one of the many lakes in our area is dang near mandatory......
Did some prepping for a wedding we are playing for in a few weeks........
Processed the paperwork to participate in Saskatoon's Word On The Street Festival in Saskatoon (Sept. 24th)
Found more copies of "Once Broken" a new home.....
I think I figured out which section of "Once Broken" I will do at McNally Robinson, Thursday! (July 27th 7pm!)
As for the upcoming days...........
A trip to the city to watch our daughter in a dragon boat race...........
Working the shop........
Attending the McNally Robinson launch on Thursday @ 7pm! (Hope to see you there)
Well folks, that about does it for now....
With this next generation in mind, I'll leave you with this wish....
May you take the reins and run, surefooted and free, when your turn comes, be bold.
May you be confident enough to be kind, never stepping to arrogance, causing others to fold.
May you seize every opportunity that a limitless education affords.
May the understanding this brings, be paired with inspiration, reaping great rewards.
May you be the generation that finally learns from humanity's mistakes, ceasing to repeat them, once and for all.
May you be the generation that, instead of rejoicing at the misstep of others, steps up to cradle the fall.
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Until next week.........
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