Things your great great grandchildren may ask about:
What were postage stamps and why did people collect them?
What was a telephone?
What was a wall clock?
What was a radio?
What does the word 'cash' mean?
What was a hard drive?
What was cork and why was it used?
What was a book?
What was paper? And what was a newspaper?
What was a love letter?
What was an address book?
What was a photo album?
What is a FAX machine and why does it have that odd name?
What was ironing?
What was a power line?
Here are things I hope they do not ask!
What was spaghetti?
What was privacy?
What was a swing?
What was a nursery rhyme?
What was a butterfly?
What was a bumblebee?
What was a board game?
What was a sing-along? (NOT Karaoke)
What was retirement?
What is a misspelled word?
I think sometimes that I'm becoming obsolete before my time! I, too, hope that some things never go out of style or favor - technology is certainly important but the simple pleasures you mention add so much more to our lives.
ReplyDeleteHa! But true!! And your list of things you hope they remember is one I can agree with for sure.
ReplyDeleteHugs
SueAnn
Two simple lists, but such truth in them.
ReplyDeleteOut of all of them, losing love letters is the saddest. There was nothing so exciting during my courtship with MY WIFE than getting the mail that day and seeing something from her in it. Likewise, I loved writing them to her. I can't imagine a "love e-mail" or "love text" could ever be as exciting.
ReplyDeleteI don't think love letters will disappear. Somehow they will live on. I don't mind if ironing goes out though.:)
ReplyDeleteGood post. And food for thought. there are some things, ideas, concepts we don't want to lose.
ReplyDeleteWhat does FAX stand for?
ReplyDeleteGranny, it is short term for the word facsimile. We, in our wisdom, made it FAX instead of FACS when we shorten it.
ReplyDeleteWhat was a blog? The young seem to think in tiny tweets. Fewer of the younger folks blog these days.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your insightful comment. I only care because I don't want the stuff I make to fall apart. LOL Once, long ago, I had three drawings return. I duplicated all three very faded pieces with apologies. It's embarrassing for an artist to not know his or her materials. Like many of the 1950's abstractionists who worked on such limited budgets, I once used very cheep materials too. Those 1950's abstract works are now chipping and falling apart in various museums offering all of us out here a lesson in biodegrading art.
Love it!
ReplyDeleteRetirement is what bothers me too. My children will not be able to save enough, or have built in pensions in their jobs to assure them of income when they can no longer have the energy to work.
Believe it or not, if the Japanese have anything to say about it, the fax machine will not die. They like to use them because the image transferred does a better job at showing Japanse writing in its proper form than anything else. They still have a healthy market for them over there.
ReplyDeleteIt would be a shame for love letters to disappear, replaced by a love tweet.
How about loge (sp?) in the movie theater. Double features, Saturday matinees with a stage show.
ReplyDeleteI will keep sending letters even if I have to make my own paper ;-0
Loge seats in the theater that is.
ReplyDeleteOh, I hope not. Zerox maybe more than fax? I'd be sad beyond words if nursery rhymes became extinct!
ReplyDeleteYou can have a pool like mine. I added something to the post that reveals just how easy.
ha. times will be changing...and i hope that we keep the things important and let go the things we shouls...maybe they will have to ask what war was...and why we ever....hey i can hope right? smiles...
ReplyDeleteI feel badly for kids that have never passed notes in class. My girlfriends and I used to LOVE doing that.
ReplyDeleteNow I find hand written notes/letters so charming. Kinda sad no one bothers much anymore.