[DiogenesLamp]

Indeed, that’s probably the reason I guess I always gravitated towards lectures, appearances, and film festivals, even when I was young. Just to get that taste of history and culture that America used to represent. Even when I was in high school, I went to see a Bob Hope event, a Harry James concert. Went to see an old guy in a nursing home who was with Pershing’s group when he went after Pancho Villa. And in college, would see lectures and appearances of Jacques Cousteau, Burt Lancaster, and Cary Grant. Of course, by the same token, I’d drive around and just talk to ordinary old-timers at feed-stores or hardware stores, about their experiences in WW1, the Depression, etc.

I would have like to have had those experiences myself. People must have a grasp of the past to understand how terribly screwed up we are now. Modern folk have no idea what "Normal" feels like.

[higgmeister]

Indeed, that’s probably the reason I guess I always gravitated towards lectures, appearances, and film festivals, even when I was young. Just to get that taste of history and culture that America used to represent. Even when I was in high school, I went to see a Bob Hope event, a Harry James concert. Went to see an old guy in a nursing home who was with Pershing’s group when he went after Pancho Villa. And in college, would see lectures and appearances of Jacques Cousteau, Burt Lancaster, and Cary Grant. Of course, by the same token, I’d drive around and just talk to ordinary old-timers at feed-stores or hardware stores, about their experiences in WW1, the Depression, etc.

I would have like to have had those experiences myself. People must have a grasp of the past to understand how terribly screwed up we are now. Modern folk have no idea what "Normal" feels like.

We were worried that our big Boxer dog hurt his leg running down the back steps to bark at a delivery truck. He seemed better after a while but the next morning my wife told me he was walking like Grandpappy Amos again. I told her right then, that was the kind of thing that made me so proud we had been married for 41 years. The fact that we both understand a common lexicon from our youth. Men that trade wives in for a newer model have no idea what "Normal" feels like either.