Amazing

Isn't today's world technologically amazing?

This morning I emailed back and forth with a man in Scotland. This afternoon I talked in a chat room with people from all over the United States and England. This evening I talked with my son while watching my granddaughter play with her toys on Skype. And tonight I talked on my cell phone with my sister in another city.

I can remember when making a long distance call had to be quick, to the point, and rare. It cost a fortune and was done in person through an operator.

In between all of this I printed out copies of my work from emails on my own printer, including a photograph! It was cheaper to print one photograph here, but it is still most cost efficient to go somewhere and have it done if I have a lot of pictures.

I remember using an old black typewriter that had to be punched with a considerable amount of force in junior high and a Brownie camera that was a pain to load and whose film had to be taken to a drug store to develop.

I remember when adding machines had long rows of numbers from 0 to 9 and a handle I pulled down between each set!

I can jump in an airplane and be in Denver in four hours when people used to take months to get there in wagons and probably never saw their families again because it was so far.

We live in such a small world now and things are so much simpler and cheaper than they once were. It seems we should be able to do something great with all this time and efficiency. Instead, though, we seem to want to complicate things and that is a shame in my opinion.

I want the world to be simple and loving. I want the innocence I find in my world to be everywhere. I want people to be truthful and straight forward. I want to hug you and for you to know right down to the center of your bones that it is only because I care. I want bullying and posturing and greed to disappear.

I want our values to grow as much as our technology.