This morning, as the moon slid toward the horizon and Charleston yawned awake, I took a nice walk and listened to Joe Rogan’s Halloween chat with Elon Musk. I laughed out loud at the unfiltered, goofy, “that’s-what-she-said” humor—because a real laugh is irresistible. It got me thinking: maybe the secret sauce isn’t just brilliance or grit. Perhaps it’s the childlike silliness we refuse to outgrow—the giggle that bubbles up and reminds our nervous system, “Hey, you’re safe. Y

Every generation has its secret code — those funny little words and phrases that make the grown-ups shake their heads and grin. Today, the youth are hollering “six-seven!”  in hallways, captions, and TikToks, and honestly, no one over twenty-five seems to know what it means. But that’s kind of the point. From what I gather, “six-seven” doesn’t mean much of anything at all — it’s just fun.  It’s the Gen Alpha version of a wink and a giggle, a sound bite of inside-joke chaos. A