There is a particular kind of reserve that people born in the 60s and 70s carry into later life. It is not loud. It is not performative. It does not clamber for likes or applause. It shows up as a patient competence in small rooms and in small crises. That phrase How People Born in … Read more
The appetite for quick fixes and polished how to guides is a modern thing. But there was a period in recent memory when people learned to bear, bend, and rebuild without a shelf of self help books or a cheerful app notification telling them to breathe. The 1960s and 1970s taught emotional strength in ways … Read more
There is a peculiar clarity you notice when you speak to someone born in the 1960s or 1970s. Not nostalgia exactly. More like the slow accumulation of small, often stubborn, rules about living. These are lessons learned in a world that still had edges: street corners where you met friends without announcing it, shops that … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness about those born in the 1960s and 1970s. Call it a stubbornness if you like but it is more honest to say they adapt on their own terms. They will learn the new phone. They will grumble while learning it. They will still care about manners and show up on … Read more
There is a stubborn idea lodged in our cultural memory that hardship makes you harder in a straight line. Lives lived in the long upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s complicate that tidy story. Those decades did not simply train people to endure. They trained them to pivot. They taught a generation to redesign expectations … Read more
There is a quiet language of time that people born in the 60s and 70s speak without meaning to. It is not nostalgia dressed up as sentimentality. It is less tidy, a mixture of habit memory and risk assessment that arrives from having lived through economic shocks cultural shifts and the slow work of making … Read more
There is a strange, steady revolution happening on front porches and in local cafes across the United Kingdom. People born in the 1960s and 1970s are showing up differently in later life. They walk a little straighter. They argue louder in book groups. They are rethinking retirement and friendships in ways younger and older cohorts … Read more
There is a stubborn myth that the 1960s and 1970s were simply a festival of excess and nostalgia. That tells only part of the story. The era taught a quieter, more stubborn lesson about being fully present. This is not vintage romanticising. This is about how whole communities learned to reduce the tyranny of the … Read more
There is a curious cultural memory that some people born or raised in the 1960s and 1970s seem to carry a blueprint for limits. Why the 1960s and 1970s produced adults with clear boundaries is more than nostalgia. It is a story about institutions, material conditions, and a set of ordinary practicalities that conspired to … Read more
People who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s carry an odd mixture of stubborn optimism and rueful realism about people living near one another. That era taught them things no algorithm can copy and that no civic consultant can bottle. This is not a nostalgia piece. It is an attempt to hear what those … Read more