Points? Let’s Go All Out…A WABAC Machine
What should I buy with my ActiveRain points? So far, I’ve added some chef-quality appliances to my kitchen to help me achieve my goal of adding variety to the meals I prepare. Next, I donated points to encourage literacy in our youth and adults.
My next purchase is an investment in a WABAC machine. (Not to be confused with the Wayback Machine shared by Liz and Bill Spear ) If you’re of a certain age, you may remember The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends. Mr. Peabody and his friend, Sherman, took us back in time each week using the WABAC Machine.
I’m not sure if Amazon has them, but perhaps Paddy Deighan MBA JD PhD knows where I can get one.
I’d use the WABAC MACHINE to take me or anyone else back to a place called A Simpler Time. (There was an old print ad with a young girl swinging from a tree. The caption was “Remember how simple life used to be?”)
This machine could be used for those times when you are fed up with what’s happening around you…at work, your home life, the world. All you want is an hour or two (or more) when you are transported to a time when the hassles of life were lifted.
Remember when we were children, we played outside with toys or rode our bikes. There were just 3 channels on TV, and on Saturday mornings they were filled with cartoons and westerns.
Now we’re figuring out how to cut the cable cord and then, which of the ever-growing streaming services we want.
In A Simpler Time we could walk into the store and purchase a carton of milk. Now we have to decide if we want whole, lactose-free, reduced fat, 2%, grass-fed, organic, goat, fat-free, lactose-free calcium calcium-enriched, unsweetened dairy-free pea milk, coconut milk, or rice dream rice drink.
Hopefully, this time away from time would be enough to rejuvenate us. Maybe we’ll come away with an appreciation for what we have now, or at least a perspective of why things are as they are.
It’s hard to say how many points this would take, but if we found the machine, I would gladly donate money to any members who felt the need to spend some time at A Simpler Time.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
This has been my 3rd entry in the ActiveRain June Challenge - ActiveRain Point Store - Open! Open! Open! Hosted by Anna “Banana” Kructhen and Debe Maxwell.
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