Chats

I was visiting with Momma, we were discussing advances. Momma recalled when she had a conversation with her great granddaughter. She was explaining that when she was a little girl, T.V had no colour. It was black and white. Our grand looked at the television and my mom explained that the picture on it had no blues or reds. She went on to explain that when her mother was little, they didn’t even have a television. You could see the processor in her mind taking in the information. In her aha moment she said, “ oh she just watched the computer!” Another time I was eating a grapefruit with a grapefruit spoon, she asked me what I was doing, and I explained all about grapefruits and the process. She continued to puzzle over the task. Finally she got up and as she walked away, I heard her murmur, “ I just don’t know what you’re doing to that orange?”

This same grand is now a teen, (well almost) she whips my phone out of my hand and bada boom bada bang, does stuff. Stuff I know nothing about. Quite frankly, I’m glad because it is the way of her future. Lot’s of room for debate in the progress. In the right hands, in mature minds, there is definitely gains to be made. If I do take a minute, I learn quite a bit. I can tell you that some of it creates extreme frustration. I have mentioned I have a long fuse, but automation and technology creates some inner fireworks when I can’t do it! No fuse, immediately want to get a bat and smash every technical gadget around! I share what I know to ease others frustration, so I must know something.

I don’t care so much about modern conveniences, I do enjoy them! I want to see the progress in medicine and health. For now, I’ll kick on my outerwear and enjoy the green spaces. Real green spaces, with trees and brooks. Not the green that they tell us they are creating. I certainly can’t afford a hundred thousand dollar car that I have to plug in. I’ll walk, reduce, reuse, recycle thanks. When did electricity for cars become renewable? That electricity isn’t coming from solar, water or wind, but what do I know?