Musings In Cb: “You have an entrepreneurial spirit”
Most of my school age years were growing up in a small town in Miami County Kansas where my mother Violet Lorraine Jackson Burnett’s family originates.
Paola is the county seat and is about 20 minutes south of Olathe where I was actually born and that’s also where my father Clifford Cepheus LeRoy Burnett’s family originates. We’re all from KC.
Generation Jones is the generation or demographic cohort sandwiched between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. The term was coined in 1999 by American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who has argued that the term refers to a distinct generation born from 1954 to 1965.[1]
Media coverage of Generation Jones has typically described it as a distinct generation, using Pontell’s dates of 1954 to 1965.[2][3]
Others see this as a subset of the Baby Boom Generation, namely its second half.[4][5]
A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers, using only the 1960s as birth years.[6][7][8][9]
Dictionary.com defines Generation Jones as “members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s”.[10] (Source: Wikipedia)
Our generation benefited from the existence of the US Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and we saw Title IX passed in 1972.
So many of the social issues of access and equality that our ancestors fought for decades to improve were largely eliminated (or had been greatly improved upon) by the time my generation had come of age.
Most of us still have that mentality and disposition of resilience when confronted with life’s inherent challenges.
That resilience for me was centered around taking advantage of the opportunities and access that our generation had because of the transformative work done for us by our elders. Music was my ticket.
Our Sunday School Superintendent Mrs. Smith, who just recently had a centennial birthday celebration, gave me some tangible encouragement during a very challenging time for me and my family while I was still just a school boy. And I’m still grateful to her.
She said to me in a confident tone and with a determined smile, “…I’m not worried about you. You’re a good soul and you have an entrepreneurial spirit.” She basically said I was a businessman.
Those brief words of encouragement along with similar words and actions from my communities of elders over the years have stayed with me. I believe that I owe all of them my best.
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