Why focus on the Little Things?
Mood:
special
Topic: Simplicity
Living in the 21st Century is sort of incredible!
First off, who ever thought we wpuld be ALIVE in the 21-first century. (I mean those of us born before 1980)
I thought I would be living on mars or floating in mid-air like the Jetsons.
I had no idea when I was a kid what a WEB was well, except for a spiders web.
Growing up all I knew was what was in front of me.
A blank piece of paper, a crayon. A workbook.
There were no learning centers, no after-school programs. You got on the bus, and came home.
We used the PHONE if we were allowed to. Not a cell-phone.
We didn'y have SUV's.
My dad drove a buick.
I had no car seat, I sat between my sisters and we fought and slapped and I had no dvd player to watch my favorite movie while going to grandma's house.
Oh yeh, that was a four-hour ride from New London,Ct
to New Jersey.
In school we were taught about doing good deeds.
I guess I still believe in doing little things like sending an e-card (WOW) to a friend.
Or if I am really stressed, (Watch a dvd) Whoa.
And if I had an opinion, which I never did have until the age of three...I didn't have a blog.
What was a blog? To my oldest sister, the blog may have been a friday-nite horror film.
I am glad I grew up during an era where T.V. went off at 12:00 A.M. I think I heard the star spangled banner twice growing up; because I was in bed at 7:30 p.m.
And I had no t.v. in my bedroom.
And there was no cartoon network. Now that I wish I had.
If things remained more simplistic, would we have to see little girls' who were murdered on Christmas Night. I wouldn't have been dressed up like Miss America.
I think all of us need to take our children a trip down memoryh lane when the most exciting thing we did was take photo's or play a game, or sit on the steps and play those slap-hand games.
Growing up in the 60's was not an innocent time.
JFK was shot.
We had the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Bobby Kennedy was shot and so was Martin Luther King.
Yep, there were even wars. But now we are so global.. everyone knows everything about EVERYTHING.
Now I have to look at guys who lie about murdering little girls.
I see a war on my computer screen, and on T.V.
I am doing all those things I never imagined.
But now, I imagine I was that seven-year old hanging out in my room playing barbies and not worrying about tomorrow.
The Patron of my site is Saint Therese of Liseux.
Who was she? Just a little girl growing up in a family of five girls with a religous father and mother.
Her biggest delight were Roses. Any type of rose.
She would offer prayers, and throw roses.
Do little girls do that?
I think some might.
I know that we can't go back to the days of "Little Things" like a drive-in movie, or pop-corn balls on a Saturday night.
But somedays.. I don't have the t.v. on, I don't use the phone,or the computer.
This is the reason for my space. That and any other thing I can think of. Tonight I am sending roses to those still szuffering from Hurricane Katrina.
It's a little thing, but just as important.
Thanks
Lammie
bright
irritated
happy