Letters to the Editor
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I've got an idea...
The short part of this piece wherein the author talks with her mother about what else there is to discuss when gossip's off the table made me so sad...apparently 'ideas' make for lousy conversation, at least in Lucy's mind.
My live-in boyfriend and I rarely gossip--when we do, it stays between us--because most of the time we talk about ideas. Politics; my god, there's plenty going on there lately. And you can feel like you're gossiping when you debate the potential for the Republicans to gain any seats at all (let alone the Presidency) in the next elections.
How about travel? Where would you go, if money were no object? Where have you been? What did you love about the places you went?
Medicine, biotechnology, technology. Gosh, there's so much happening in those fields it could fill your conversations for the next century. Seen the story about the new schizophrenia medicine? It could be a life-saver for the people who suffer from this disease. Do you know what's different about it?
I know I won't get this right, but there's an old saying about the size of minds and the topics of conversations, and it ends saying big minds discuss ideas. Try those some time.