One of my Facebook posts from 7 years ago. I thought I would post it here...
"I remember.....driving my all-steel pedal car along the sidewalk on Cliff Street in Torrance, California as a child and not being afraid of getting kidnapped....setting the garbage can on fire one morning playing with the stove....and telling the truth...visiting Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Davis in McFarland, California, then in their 80's and how genuine and kind they were....learning to ride a bicycle for the first time....my first dog being hit by a car....riding a motorcycle for the very first time....learning to drive....buying Tote Goat gas for 89 cents a gallon...going to the movie theatre for $1.50...and I have watched as the world has changed who we are....I have watched simplicity die away and yield to complexity...I have watched as compassion turned to neglect....and how we have become disconnected from people....I remember an age, not too very long ago when there were no cell phones....I remember walking 10 miles one summer day to use the phone at a ranch house near Ducor, California when my car broke down....I remember reading books and encyclopedias, because there was no Internet...I remember writing letters to friends and addressing them to myself from them, so the post office would return them to sender because stamps were expensive....I remember picking grapes in the summertime near Terra Bella, California for 13 cents a box.....working in a nearby packing house for $3.35/hour...and cashing a $150.00 paycheck for a week's work....but, what I remember most was how the generations who have passed stood out in my mind...how sincere and kind they were....and how they took the time to talk to you, or write you a letter....and how the story that they shared could be read in their eyes...and today, we send a few quick texts....an emotionless communique, and this is how we express love, sadness, happiness and every other emotion. When have you hugged someone you love???? Or written them a letter in pen???? When did the pursuit of money and getting ahead replace the importance of people???? It seems as though what I remember most is how we should yet again become......"
"I remember.....driving my all-steel pedal car along the sidewalk on Cliff Street in Torrance, California as a child and not being afraid of getting kidnapped....setting the garbage can on fire one morning playing with the stove....and telling the truth...visiting Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Davis in McFarland, California, then in their 80's and how genuine and kind they were....learning to ride a bicycle for the first time....my first dog being hit by a car....riding a motorcycle for the very first time....learning to drive....buying Tote Goat gas for 89 cents a gallon...going to the movie theatre for $1.50...and I have watched as the world has changed who we are....I have watched simplicity die away and yield to complexity...I have watched as compassion turned to neglect....and how we have become disconnected from people....I remember an age, not too very long ago when there were no cell phones....I remember walking 10 miles one summer day to use the phone at a ranch house near Ducor, California when my car broke down....I remember reading books and encyclopedias, because there was no Internet...I remember writing letters to friends and addressing them to myself from them, so the post office would return them to sender because stamps were expensive....I remember picking grapes in the summertime near Terra Bella, California for 13 cents a box.....working in a nearby packing house for $3.35/hour...and cashing a $150.00 paycheck for a week's work....but, what I remember most was how the generations who have passed stood out in my mind...how sincere and kind they were....and how they took the time to talk to you, or write you a letter....and how the story that they shared could be read in their eyes...and today, we send a few quick texts....an emotionless communique, and this is how we express love, sadness, happiness and every other emotion. When have you hugged someone you love???? Or written them a letter in pen???? When did the pursuit of money and getting ahead replace the importance of people???? It seems as though what I remember most is how we should yet again become......"
