It's all worth it - don't you think?

Well, here I sit at a strange computer on my blog! How interesting the world has become. I no longer need to be home to do things that are home. Like mail (email) or journaling (blog) one wonders what will be next. We have refridgerators that tell us when we need milk. Microwaves that will generate a grocery list based on the food we've eaten. this is beyond anything I could have dreamed up when I was a kid. I'm beginning to feel like my grandmother! Grandma Lundy was born in 1894. She helped her parents run the boarding houses and Inns in burns that people stayed at while traveling on the overland stagecoach. She was famous for her cooking. She made great biscuits and rolls. She was also way ahead of her time in her thinking of nutrition. She never searved a meal (dinner) with less than 2 vegetables (and potatoes are NOT a vegetable) She also always had fruit at those meals. A completely well balanced diet - by today's standards - by someone born more than a hundred years ago. She witnessed travel by stagecoach and horses that changed to trains, busses and cars, the invention of planes and the developement of travel by them and even witnessed the landing of men on the moon! She saw the newfangled typewriter and the invention of the computer. She new the pony express, newspapers, telegraph, telephone, radio and TV. She saw the "War to End all Wars", World War II, The Korean War, and the VietNam War. She saw the developement of the x-ray to be able to diagnose conditions otherwise only "visible" by surgery. She saw the developement of general anesthetic, pennicillin and vaccines for the flu and Polio, as well as whooping cough, diptheria and tetnus. She witnessed the changes brought by childrens immunizations and the obliteration of the dreaded small pox. She saw the changes that made children so much more likely to grow up!

AS children born of the "post war" world we have seen many of these things and more, including the desktop computer that had more "computing" power than the previous desk sized computers. We have seen the computers get smaller and smaller till now you can literally hold one in your hand. We've seen the invention of Cable TV, and Satellite TV, and now TV over the internet. We can call someone on the phone while driving down the road! (I didn't say it was safe - but we CAN do it. We have microwaves that will tell us when our dinner is done after the tough of 2 buttons. Ovens that can bake a sheet of cookies in less than 10 minutes - even MUCH less! We can mix a batch of cookies or bread almost effortlessly in our kitchenaid mixers. Or if we prefer, we can buy the dough ready to bake! Almost any food you could want is available to us ready to pop into the microwave or oven - or even just heat on the stove. Yet my grandmother had to start by chopping the wood, killing, cleaning and plucking the chicken! I too am known as a great cook, but I don't think I could make much of a meal if I had to use grandma's methods! I can make her best biscuits and even her rolls but I can't even imagine having to take all afternoon to get together tonight's dinner. We can have food delivered to us from anywhere in the world - we eat fresh produce in the middle of winter that was shipped from South America or even Austrailia. What a wonderful world we have! Years ago we realized that what happens in our community effects all of us. It is time we realize that the entire world is our community,a nd treat it accordingly. It is time that we realize that we are all the same family, and like all families we can argue and even fight, but when we fo it hurts the whole family. We are brothers and sisters, and the very farthest we are cousins. Hey, you people in the Middel East and Israel. You revere you father, Abraham. You share the same Father and all of you love him. How does a father feel when his children argue and fight? Honor your father and learn to get along. To do less dishonors him. But this is not what I'm sitting here wanting to write about, so let's get back to the subject.



We live in a marvelous world! In 1957, My husband's grandfather got up to speak in church and had a heart attack. No one knew CPR and by the time help arrived there was no help, he had died. My dad is in the hospital right now in the ICU. Monday, early in the morning his heart was failing to pump well enough to circulate his blood, so they "helped" it with CPR. that night when his kidneys were just failing to do a good enough job to be compatible with life, a slow short session of dialisys restored his health. Tuesday morning he woke up ready to take on the world - as long as he didn't have to get out of bed! Today he is concentrating on pass his "swallow test" so he can have real food! And we get to enjoy having him with us for at least a while longer. What a blessing! We can continue to learn from him and his example! Really that makes all the pain and fear worthwhile - don't you think?