Molly, in all the time I have "talked" to you ... listened to you and learned from you, I have never heard you without your indomitable ... ness (?)
Always the constant one, you are ... steady and true. Maybe, for a while, you are tired of being just that for so many ... all the time?
Maybe .... and what our government has been up to lately does not, obviously, help ...
I was thinking, the other day, how amazing it is that, back in the early 1900's Coke actually had cocaine in it ... yes! ... and that females everywhere thought it quite the thing to move about, in scanty-little-thing-a-ma-bobs ... and schooch up to any male available ... dyed their hair BLONDE and shaved off their eyebrows ... and made their lips look like they (the lips) ... were going to take flight ... the men? .... Well they were taking advantage of this, of course ... liking this new era ...
Then the government thought ... enough! .... and passed Prohibition in the hopes this would heal our Nation's sagging morals ... but the skirts got shorter, the cigars bigger ... the tycoons rubbing their hands together in glee and flunkies counting more dimes than they could have ever imagined ...
Fast forward and we are attacked at Pearl Harbor and all the silliness stops until some nuts regroup and claim ... You can not do that ...
And ... Yes, I can. The Constitution tells me so ...
Newspapers were on it or not ... the Chicago Tribune nearly closed .... (we can only hope the same fate waits for the NYT) .... thousands and thousands of lives lost ... then, not too many years later we really did take out millions .... KaBoom! .... hands wrung and sweethearts came home, finally .... which brings us to Korea ..
We were a Nation learning how to paralel park and could not be bothered ... but were up and front for Viet Nam ... ill-informed, thanks to the media which had entered center-stage and led us to Johnson showing us his big fat stomach and scar and abusing his dog, liberating the black community while selling our soldiers down the river ..
On and on Molly ....
I hope you see what I am trying to nudge you to ... which you already know ....
Lasting things, Molly .... through all these times ... Moms testing their kiddos temperatures by placing their cheeks on their forhead ... in the middle of the night, ... a pat to a dog's head beats almost anything ... a cat coming over to you for no reason ... but love ... clean sheets on a line in the backyard ... a freshly picked tomato you grew yourself ... a victory garden and opening the door for one who can't ....
Checking you neighbor and feeding the birds and hoping for Spring ....
I do not know if this time is so very different than the times lived by a farmer's wife .... in the 30's ... without the net ... just trusting in the Lord and humankind ...
pollyanna signing off ...
Despite our frustration with the government and especially the democrats, despite the media's attacks on us and the constant bad stuff on TV, life still, in all it's noise, confusion, and beauty...still goes on.
Thanks for the reminder, and a very poetic one, at that!
Hi, illstillbe
Did I ever tell you that my paternal grandmother shot a chicken hawk out of the sky after it snatched one of her chickens?
She made me stand behind her when she was doing it, but I peeked. And witnessed the entire thing. The story will be in my book.
Thank you.
Thank you for the reminder.
Dear pollyanna & "italics" lover..
concur..
thinking of you along the way
What a neat quick short history of our country. I didn't know the women in that era were so "free". Goodness, I always thought the ladies in the 19teens, 20s and 30s were very straight laced and prissy. I know in our village we (children) weren't allowed to do anything they thought was "out of line", like using a risque word or being "fresh".
Such reminders would counteract the "wishy washy goo", not just in sermons, but in society at large.