pretty much democratic politics as normal, eh?
exploiting the moment.
when i was 7 years old... i was pretty much trying to get from A to Z. and my colors. and simple arithmetic.
but then, i guess my whole reaction to this current controversy would have been my attraction to Mary Ann. *my sweet Mary Ann*
she was five or six. but she was the one. i knew it then. i know it now.
*sigh*
I think you'll find many of us here are of at least your age. I remember thinking when I was 4, that I could build a cardboard locomotive so I could follow my Grampa down the Missouri Pacific line when he went to work in central Kansas. All ya have to do is figure how long Missouri Pacific has been gone to figure the age that I grew up in.
I firmly believe my age has to be blessed! No other generation has seen the technological strides in a single lifetime that we have. Computer tech is doubling every 6 months! It is clearly like going to the moon every few hours as compared to the time when my parents and grandparents grew up.
The thing I miss the most is the family garden. Every single member of the family for generations would contribute to what in my young skull seemed like better than a football field! We grew our own pork, chickens, beef! We had regular family get togethers when the apples ripened, the lard had to be rendered, vegetables needed canned, pigs needed slaughtered.
My own children managed to get into the last of it. Actually I still grow my own beef and pork, but the huge garden is gone........... I am greatly in fear that we might yet have to revive that way of life out of necessity.
At least my family has not yet lost the knowledge of the old ways we still cling to our heritage to a certain extent.
In hell holes like New York, Chicago, Detroit, L.A., Frisco.......on and on and on, it will look like the end of the world!!!! Gangs know how to sell dope and rob liquor stores, but lack the skills to grow there own sustenance! I will look at that as a godsend. I have the opinion that belonging to a gang should be a death sentence, just as soon as it can be proved!
Ah well, guess I have rambled long enough. Times, they are a changin'!
