Between Generations.

From the post Best Days on Jack Cheng’s blog, where he is writing g about becoming a parent.

[I realized] that I am now in between generations. My sense of time is eroding beneath my feet. The scope of my life feels, suddenly, both broader and narrower than before.

I think I’ve felt something like when I became a parent, but I had no good word or phrase for what I was feeling.

Seeing the words “in between generations” struck me as a very good signifier to attach to the shift I experienced in my sense of being-in-time after my kids were born.

For me, this shift did not happen like a lightening bolt. It unfolded and asserted itself gradually.