You've come a long way, baby.
First a disturbing bit of backward thinking . [source: if then else] It seems a senator from Kansas believes that if woman's suffrage was to be voted on today that she would vote against it. Putting aside the lunacy of the situation on which she could even vote for a woman's right to vote - her statements make me sad. Her claim is that the 19th Amendment was the beginning of the erosion of American family values.I get frustrated by discussions such as these, not because of the merits (or lack of merits) of the respective points, but rather the futility and wastefulness of such discussions. Energy should be expended in forward looking thinking. We cannot go back to the good old days because our society would reject those days (that really weren't all that good in many ways anyway) and because there are much better things in our future if we can just change our perceptions and our behavior.
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And now something a bit more personal. Reading Mark's recent post about packing up his belongings and moving on in life - selling his home, taking an extended vacation, and most likely moving away when he returns. I hate "losing" friends more than anything else in life. But more than my feelings of loss, I feel left out or left behind. Not by anyone but by life. Tremendous opportunities exist for me to travel the world and stop anywhere I wish. I long for the will to pick up and change my life. I would sell many of my things I have accumulated, store some more and just take off with my wife (I think we would have to take our dog though) and simply go from place to place, working as needed to live, but not living to work. We could meet people from all parts of the earth and spend as much time as we could enjoying ourselves and the company of others. Is this just a dream? I grow impatient already and I am young. I have time. Or maybe my impatience is due to my youth. Will I lose this over time, allowing myself to get lulled into complacency? I can hear the lullaby already. Sure it sounds soothing, but if I listen too long I may end up falling asleep.
