Things I Like About...

Things I Like About This Current Time and Culture:

1) Road trips.
2) Easy, affordable, and quick travel.
3) Knowledge at your fingertips.
4) Putting all that knowledge together gives us the semblance of a bigger picture.
5) Movies. Like dreams, only sometimes better. And with soundtracks.
6) We know why we should be grateful.
7) We know what needs to be fixed.
8) Advances in philosophy, mathematics, and of course, science.
9) We share our beauty through art, literature, fashion, architecture...
10) We understand the mistakes that have been made, sort of.
11) Choices. Freedom.
12) A justice system for all the people (except the suspected terrorists, that is).
13) The eradication of certain diseases, and a much lower infant and childhood mortality rate.
14) The melting pot.
15) Electric stoves and fridges and fans.
16) Washing machines.
17) Music with depth, talent, and variety, that we can turn up really loud.
18) Chapstick.
19) World spices. World medicines.
20) Driving with the windows down on a sunny day.
21) Photographs and the smell of new film.
22) Christmas lights and scented candles.
23) Painless communication across long distances.
24) Ink pens.
25) Typewriters. Maybe even word processors.

I'm sure there are others, but I'm trying to think of the simple little things I love, and everything that is just now crossing my mind is so traditional, so old; I'm thinking of weather and nature and water and stars and things that have been there for all of us. The other things I am thinking of are a facade: like locking things out of the house at night, convenience food, and strapping kids into car seats. Which I think is tomorrow night's blog: Things I Like About Times and Places Extraneous to This Current Time and Culture.