From Dave Cesari – Do not forget to go to the TGO Photo Page – Dave posted 7 photos just before he is heading to NY for the summer – But, he will post photos from NY, so keep checking back.
MY STORY FOR TODAY – I grew up on a Brethren farm in a Brethren farm community. So, everyone I knew was Brethren. Each family did nothing but farm. We each, basically, ate what we grew and we grew what we ate. We seldom went to the store, we kind of lived the way we all have to do now that Coronavirus is here. So, if we let our mind go back 80 years this new way of life, that the TV says we have to live, is really just an old way of living.
But, I sure have evolved a lot – If I do not go to store to purchase my coffee, my wine, my chips, my honey crisp apples, bananas, 5 kinds of nuts, soft cheese, frozen cherries, ………… You got the message – I really have evolved and am dependent on that grocery store? Bet you are dependent on it too.
It is not just the food store that I am dependent on – what about my internet – Like the advertisement on our TV – The guy gets mad and starts to throw things when his internet driven machine doesn’t close the drapes fast enough when he tells the machine to close his drapes – Satellite internet service is a requirement of our evolution!
Well this morning I went out my front door to watch SpaceX send 60 more satellites skyward to improve my internet! You see, important stuff is still happening – the internet is the new way of staying connected when social gatherings are discouraged – We are lucky to have that new technology. Now, lets hope the grocery store stays open and stocked during this new Coronavirus outbreak.
I know my neighbors in Florida and on Drummond Island want to go back in time, but I am, also, sure they do not want to give up the grocery store. Oh, you say “How do I know they want to go back in time?” I know because they keep images of prehistoric things in their lawns, driveways, and parking lots! I’ll show you just three of them.
In both Drummond and Florida, I bike around and see this stuff. I think about how it used to be – no, not just 80 years ago when my parents had a 2 acre garden, a barn full of cow manure to fertilize the garden, horses to pull the plow – but way back – back before the garden and before the internet talked to our drapes, … back to when getting food was a real dangerous chore every day.
Bottom line is this Coronavirus situation is real serious when it comes to getting food. Have you seen the empty shelves at the grocery store? Purchasing food is very important to us now that we have evolved. But, so has our creativity evolved – We will figure out a way to enjoy our new world. But in the mean time I played around with my thoughts using photos and PhotoShop to tell my story:
Since the Coronavirus, I do not even want to go get my hair cut – I do not know if they sanitize the electric cutters – Mom used the kitchen scissors to give me a hair cut 80 years ago but now I think I will be like Wilily Nelson and grow a pony-tail.
I was thinking, what if our ancestors were creative – got new ideas – take a look.
That is how we humans evolved – Ideas on how to do new things, even, ideas on hair cuts, colored nails and all kinds of important things that we will find new ways to do in this new Coronavirus world!
