by Ralph
on April 22, 2011
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Are
Are you running scared?
I got inspired today about the role that fear plays in life. Nobody wants fear and we all do anything we can to avoid it but in spite of everything it comes anyway. I was reading a blogger I follow who was musing about fear. For a twenty year old she had an incredible understanding of how important fear is both as a motivator and inhibitor of activity. Too little fear and we just sit around in comfortable complacency doing nothing and going nowhere. Too much fear and we huddle in a corner, too afraid to move. But the right amount of fear can make you do amazing things. [continue reading…]
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by Ralph
on April 21, 2011
Back in Time
Back in Time
Until I was 9 we lived in suburban communities with regular telephones. While most telephones in the 40’s were bulkier and had rotary dialing, they can still be recognized as telephones today. When we moved to the country in 1949 we stepped back 50 years in telephone technology. Instead of dialing a number we had to get the attention of an operator who made all the telephone calls. We also had a party-line which meant that eight other households shared the use of our telephone line. If they were talking, then we had to wait until they finished. Basically it was the same as if each of us was an extension in a very large house. It wasn’t a big problem for a 10 year old but it was often a big nuisance for adults. Of course if there was an emergency, you just asked the person talking to let you make a call. Sometimes there might be a disagreement about what determined an emergency. Then too there was always the concern that some nosy neighbor was eavesdropping on your conversation. In those days, in the country, you didn’t have choices. If you didn’t like party lines, it was just too bad. [continue reading…]
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