Monday, March 23, 2009

Family

As my Grandma is aging-she finds herself reminiscing of her past, which I love. The farms, the diner her mom owned, the baseball with the boys, the simplicities, but some of the reminiscing isn't so easy to hear-like, loss of siblings in the war, loss of babies due to still birth or diseases, abuse...

I really listen when she speaks of their Great Depression and I kind of guffaw at our generation. Our spoiled give me more, right now generation. We wouldn't last a week, put in her past, today.

Bankers in the Late 1920's early 1930's that were the upper, upper class losing it all and moving into farm houses. Or having to stand in line at the local factory praying that you will get work. Eating what you grow or raise.

Yes, times have changed. Technology has grown with us. But family is and will always be there. Money may be fleeting...homes maybe lost, friends may move on, but family...don't take them for granted.

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