WHAT BLESSED RELIEF.......

Whew.....I cannot begin to tell you just how great it feels to escape from the malady which afflicts so much of the world today! Some call it 'AMBITION'; Some call it 'GREED'; some call it "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES". Still others call it "GETTING BACK TO BASICS".

Whatever you choose to call it is okay with me. This is a FREE COUNTRY we live in (at least for now)! You're gonna find this blog quite different from my first blog, SANGUINITY IN SENESCENCE, in that I'll be sharing more from my personal experiences (75 years worth of them!) things I've learned just from living this long!

A child of the GREAT DEPRESSION ERA (born in 1933), I've seen QUITE A FEW "CHANGES" during my lifetime.....not all of them have been for the better. There are some things I didn't grow up with that I'd certainly hate to have to do without today.....such as running water and indoor plumbing! But there are things we had "back then" which would make today's world so much better!

The first of those "back then" assets is closer-knit families! In today's world, each family member is so involved in his/her individual pursuits that it is often difficult to find even an hour each day to communicate.

The next is neighbors that we really knew....because there were very few movie theaters....no shopping malls....a minimum of "socials" associated with our church attendance. Consequently, when we had a "need" (such as a cup of sugar to finish baking that pound cake) we simply went "next door" and borrowed it from a neighbor, until our next scheduled trip to the grocery store!
Thus was removed today's tendency to hop in the car and go to the store to get some sugar .....often returning home with at least 5 or 6 other items...plus, if you have young children, a new "toy" which before the end of the day had already been discarded.

I'll start from the beginning to share what it was like growing up in a slower-paced society, just beginning to recover from the market crash of 1929. It just might help in the days ahead! So, check back often to learn how things were "back then" (as my daughter used to say...."when dinosaurs roamed the earth")!

I'll be back!