Thoughts.. on Today and Tomorrow in History

                                                   My great grandparents and grandmother!

I got to thinking about the world situation this morning after listening to the news and as usual a song popped in my head.  I was never a hippy or a protester but I was into folk music and that era of quiet protest with songs...too many to remember.  Even today songs like "Where have all the Flowers Gone", "Peace Train" and...to many to remember. But occasionally a song from way back pops up. It brought me back to the days of my youth...The Barge and Poor House in Syracuse and getting together with friends late at night singing songs, playing records and thinking about the world through the eyes of song writers, folk singers and such.

I can still remember Joni Mitchell's lyrics..."they paved paradise and put up a parking lot"...and today its a reality.  Friends are traveling to vacation spots around the world but now everything basically looks the same...little original flavor in many cities...maybe we are too modern.

Today we spend more time on the internet and our phones and not enough time thinking in the quiet...but that's just my opinion!

Everyone has got a beef about something out in the world...we worry about money more than the future of civilization I fear.  Wars and conflict over land have been part of civilization forever. We can tune in to TV shows on the lost civilizations and wonder what happened to them? Do we worry as much about what's happening to us???

Morals have gone out the window, so many think...but we historians can point to Sodom and 

Gomorra, Noah and the great flood, asteroid hits, on and on. Today we do ancestry sites to find where we came from and of course hope for a successful relative or a famous relative or two.  Perhaps we should be thinking more along the lines of what WE will be remembered for?

I can personally attest to the fact that people come back to the museum to find tidbits on their relatives but trying to get volunteers to help provide it is impossible!

Oh well...here is the song I was thinking of...turn on your sound, think about it and smile... as Uncle 

Basil would say "people change...they get worse"...and grandma always said "it only happens to the living!"