tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post9004781458026855174..comments2023-05-16T01:55:32.822-07:00Comments on Crumbs From the Corner: Adventures in Woolgathering: Lessons From a BirdPhyllis Hunt McGowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-38428480565923593472008-06-16T17:59:00.000-07:002008-06-16T17:59:00.000-07:00Tangobaby, those are my thoughts exactly- I'd not ...Tangobaby, those are my thoughts exactly- I'd not suggest going back to those days, for all their simplicity. Human progress must have been for something. It can't all be bad so that we hark back to days of no electricity. <BR/>If my relative could have had a washing machine and microwave and cell phone I don't doubt she'd have loved them.Phyllis Hunt McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-27310786683180383902008-06-16T16:18:00.000-07:002008-06-16T16:18:00.000-07:00Thank you for the reminder of the luxury of being ...Thank you for the reminder of the luxury of being able to communicate easily.<BR/><BR/>I still find old-fashioned cards and letters romantic and I'm wistful about the thought of getting a telegram (even though I've never gotten one and now Western Union doesn't even exist), but my need for instant gratification will always override my wishing things were like the good old days.tangobabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01288974184200212536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-1304230029811561152008-06-16T10:37:00.000-07:002008-06-16T10:37:00.000-07:00Julie, I'll check those out. Thanks for that. That...Julie, I'll check those out. Thanks for that. That's just what I was getting at- the loss and the bravery and to know you can't go home or even talk to your family again. It took brave people to do that- or was it desperation, or both? I"m not sure. <BR/>As I said you don't even have to go back a century or two- just a short time ago the world was very different. I grew up without a cell phone Phyllis Hunt McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-55846657196578429522008-06-16T02:22:00.000-07:002008-06-16T02:22:00.000-07:00having gone "back" to the "old world" myself, i ha...having gone "back" to the "old world" myself, i have often thought about exactly this. even ten years ago when i was first here, we spent an absolute fortune keeping me in touch with my family. now thanks to technology, it's easy and affordable. <BR/><BR/>i've often imagined how lonely it must have been and how very brave those who went to find a better life were--knowing they might never see julochkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884096685015570257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-14115970003224123312008-06-15T08:35:00.000-07:002008-06-15T08:35:00.000-07:00Jaime,it's great. It means we can go further and s...Jaime,<BR/>it's great. It means we can go further and still stay in contact with home and work. <BR/>Every age has had its learning experience- I wonder too what people will think of us in three centuries from now. What will they laugh at? What will they be amazed by- perhaps something we thought was one way and turned out to be another, or they might wonder how we managed with the little Phyllis Hunt McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-39220195957476591502008-06-15T07:52:00.000-07:002008-06-15T07:52:00.000-07:00It really is a global village now. It's still a ve...It really is a global village now. It's still a very large planet, but we all seem a little closer together due to our technological advances, and that's a wonderful thing.<BR/><BR/>Imagine what it would have been like to live during the time when everyone thought the world was flat! They must have thought that the world was so vast and that the edge of it would never be discovered. Little did Jaimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04803308252202460126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-55621541435950187932008-06-15T07:27:00.000-07:002008-06-15T07:27:00.000-07:00Texican, ah, that's a good scene and very topical ...Texican, ah, that's a good scene and very topical to the discussion. I didn't think of it. That's why input from readers is so great- they think of things you don't at the time.<BR/>I try not to take the modern world for granted, I try to remember that it wasn't always this way.Phyllis Hunt McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-12063298327283473542008-06-15T07:26:00.000-07:002008-06-15T07:26:00.000-07:00Polona, true enough, I don't have to go back centu...Polona, true enough, I don't have to go back centuries... just one decade or two and we wouldn't recognise the world. <BR/><BR/>Paul, it's good to have a service you can rely on so the worry of making calls doesn't exist. We use Skype for the countries that our VoIP (Lingo) doesn't cover.Phyllis Hunt McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-6077939580729779662008-06-15T04:50:00.000-07:002008-06-15T04:50:00.000-07:00I love the scene in the movie Dances With Wolves w...I love the scene in the movie Dances With Wolves where the crude old mule skinner is examining a skeleton on the grassy plains with an arrow plainly visible - He grins and says "There's probably some pilgrim back East saying, 'why don't he write?'." That was less than two hundred years ago. Less than a hundred years ago when I was a boy, many people didn't have their own telephones. We've comePappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13118854996343714131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-22885182634099250862008-06-14T16:51:00.000-07:002008-06-14T16:51:00.000-07:00I remember when we lived in the UK (95-98), it cos...I remember when we lived in the UK (95-98), it cost a huge amount to call our family in the US.<BR/><BR/>I'm thankful for Skype. Not free but close to it.paulmerrillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03555284589007691780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-6003166093749820932008-06-14T11:05:00.000-07:002008-06-14T11:05:00.000-07:00there are so many things we take for granted, and ...there are so many things we take for granted, and yet... only a few decades ago so many things we take for granted didn't exist.<BR/>thank you for the reminder.polonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12631341810150848122noreply@blogger.com