Monday Thoughts...Remember How Simple Life Used to Be?
Yesterday I was reading James Dray’s post on James Blyth, the inventor of the first wind turbine. (by the way, if you’d like to learn something new every 
day I suggest you follow his blog)
My mind turned to windmills, not the huge turbines we see today but the smaller ones.
When I was a wee one our family would drive out to beach property we had along the Gulf Coast.
Often we had 4 to 5 carloads traveling there for a day of fun and, of course, food!
No cell phones in those days in case someone had car trouble or got lost. When I look back I wonder how in the world we all made it to the beach and back.
All of the kids would ride in the back of our station wagon. No seat belt rules then...so again, I have to wonder how we made it.
My older cousin, Patty, would keep us occupied for the 90 minute trip by having us count the windmills we saw. Half of us on one side, the other counted the windmills on the other side of the road. Patty offered to buy ice cream to the winners.
Well, how naive were we?!
We took the same road to the beach and yet we counted those windmills as if somehow new ones would spring up since the last time we were in town.
And, as for the ice cream...Patty always bought everyone the cone of our choice.
No iPhones or iPads or Nintendo Switch to keep us occupied in the car. We played games that we made up. Or once outside the car, we ran around and climbed and jumped on things.
Can you remember how simple life used to be??
What do you remember?
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities. Thomas Sowell
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