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!"

Time marches on...no doomsday this year!

Well...THANK GOD!!! Today a scientist showed a newly found Mayan Calendar that goes hundreds of years past the doomsday date people have been driving me crazy with ...in December of this year!  Yea..


I am so sick of this flap about the end of the world coming that I was happy and copied the link so I could present it to my next gathering of doomsday sayers at dinner party next week.


The truth is however, I had sort of hoped the doomsday date would be moved up a few months so that I didn't have to hear anymore about "POLITICS and the election!"  Wow talk about blab..blab..blab..on and on about religions and other stuff that we have no real need to discuss since 200 plus years ago we are supposed to have separated Church and State (and I might add for good reason)  Perhaps I have forgotten what the Constitution looks like or how it reads!


The other half of the blab is about equality.....yes another part of the basics of our country that was stated in the Declaration of Independence...let see if I remember that line...That all men (and women) are created equal and endowed by their creator (*note no name or religion mentioned) with certain inalienable rights...among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!   


Yes but more than 200 years later we are still trying to figure this out!    Does this mean happiness only to those who are the right color, sex, religion, or nationality.  Does this mean only the rich..and not the poor?


I am appalled to think that the great minds who are swaying our country today are not the likes of Jefferson and Madison...but Limbaugh and Beck..with a little "tea party" thrown in....hmmmm......


Then the next question that arises is ....if the world comes to an end... how is it going to happen????hmm.. Dinner parties have provided much fodder on this..nuclear war...global warming....being hit by meteorites.....flesh eating bacteria that is unleashed by some unscrupulous scientist!


Well for some uplifting news..we have also dated the frozen guy from up on the Italian - Austria boarder named Oetzi who is 5300-year-old caveman ... so see we have been around for many..many..years and will probably continue for many more...


Science has shown us the progression of the development of the average man's human body.....but as of recently ...my opinion is that the human brain hasn't done so well...it might actually be regressing.


This end of the world stuff has gotten me singing an old song by the Kingston Trio that I used to love...well listen to it below and laugh... The Merry Minuet..and realize how many years ago it was written (1958) and is still true!!!! You will love this......

Written by Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.

Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, "The Merry Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio.^[1] It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him.