watching the RENT movie, and I'm thinking about how long I'll have to wait before I can let my kids watch. and then I'm realizing how much I'll have to explain so they have the context to appreciate it. the biggie being how AIDS was a flat-out death sentence when RENT was written.

which then makes me wonder how much of what my folks love i just can't appreciate for lack of context. or at least, for lack of a connection to that context.