Someday we’ll find us a rainbow connection
Posted
March 31, 2009 at
9:32 pm by
Jessica
Circa 1979.
Before 911. Before Hurricane Katrina. Before global warming. Before Chernobyl. Before houses worth became less than what we paid for them. Before the age of too much information. Before OJ allegedly (cough, cough) murdered his wife and an innocent bystander, before the Oklahoma City bombing, before the Columbine masacre, before Princess Diana died in a car crash, before the Rwandan Genocide, before Tianamen Square, the Challenger Explosion, Branch Davidians, Rodney King, the Asian Tsunami and several wars.
Ah. Those were simpler times, weren’t they? Seems like, even though catastrophes happened, they were just more spread out and you didn’t dwell on it so much, no?
Don’t you wish your children or grandchildren didn’t face such uncertain times and responsibilites? What obstacles and disasters are they going to be faced with? Makes me never want my children to leave the nest.
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1. Cin
March 31, 2009 @ 9:38 pm
My daughter says she is going to be a tree hugger when she grows up. She is going to live a simple natural life, in a tent in our back yard so that we can always be together. That sounds good to me.
2. mully
March 31, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
You know, I shouldnt do this because I have other things I really do need to be doing. But this post really got to me Cin.
I was just telling someone at work today that my heart breaks for my 3 little grandsons at the world they will be inheriting. The national deficit WILL be theirs to contend with, not mine. However, if I could, Id take their share of shit and hand over whatever share of good I have. Its so not fair that our current administration cant figure a better way to get their heads out of their asses so that this wont be the legacy our children and grandchildren inherit.
Back in the 60’s, we didnt think we could survive 3 assassinations. We watched in horror night after night as more and more young Americans fell to their deaths in Vietnam and in 1970, I stood watching as students lay dead on the ground at Kent State University.
I know my parents couldnt believe the horrors of Pearl Harbor or Omaha Beach and it goes on and on.
For centuries, there have always been tragedies and crisis that threaten to break the human spirit. Somehow, we rally and gather our collective strengths and we rise to the challenge and in doing so, we become stronger.
As a people, my money is still on Americans. I hope and pray that I am not wrong.
3. mully
March 31, 2009 @ 10:28 pm
Cin: Thank you for a reminder of simpler times. My 4 kids, my husband and I, in the living room at night watching the Muppet Show.
It really was a simpler time and I do miss it.
4. mully
March 31, 2009 @ 10:34 pm
Sorry: I just realized that Jessica posted this article.
It got to me anyway, no matter who posted it.
5. Jessica
April 1, 2009 @ 2:34 am
Mully, now you’re going to make me cry! I knew you would know where my heart was at with this post.
I will always remember, in the late 70’s (the Muppets were a welcome diversion) during the Carter administration (I was just a kid, but I still remember it well), the world was saying we couldn’t come back from where we were at at the time, that America was finished - over - never to be a super power again.
Well, folks. I am hearing the same thing today.
We proved them wrong then, no reason why we can’t do it again.
As I said, every era has it’s share of crisis, but there just seem to be so many disenfranchised people, so many people without hope right now. Maybe it’s the simpler things in life we need to focus on?
6. mully
April 1, 2009 @ 7:51 am
Whenever I need to feel solaced or whenever I cant take it anymore. whatever “it” may be, I retreat to my family. I always have.
They are my safety net, my safe haven. Usually I come away feeling better, more ready to tackle the problems I couldnt tackle before.
You might be right Jessica. Maybe its time, as a country, we return to the simpler things, the things that made this country great.
Family, religion, morality, teaching todays children, tomorrow’s adults that responsibility DEFINES you as a person, better work ethics. We seem to have been running in circles, chasing our tails for awhile now and I think its caught up with us.
Americans need to remember what this country was founded on. The principles our forefathers felt would make us great. It worked then and in the face of greater tyranny than we now face.
I think it can still work.
7. GrandmafrmKs.
April 1, 2009 @ 10:39 am
Wow!!What a tear jerker,
My Father was at Pearl Harbor, his parents hoped and prayed, it worked
My BIL was in Viet Nam, his mom hoped and prayed, it worked
My son is in special training for his 3rd tour of deployment, and I again am hoping and praying, oh how I wish I could take him back to the Muppets,in the living room all safe with the rest of us,but what I can/will do is Hope And Pray.
You are right it worked then, it will “work a gain” We Hope n’ Pray