Benjamin Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 "Plastic bags aren't good for the environment!" A young cashier piped out. The old woman apologized and said: "We didn't do 'green' in my early days." Her mind recalled... The noise of the mill. How things relied on pairs of hands: Wash tubs, mangles, open coal fires, carpet beaters and donkey stones. How she'd walked just about everywhere from the rented terraced house, with its communal privy and cold water tap; and only radio to cheer the dim-lit rooms. She'd eked the doctor's sixpence for her children's care; clothed them with hand-me-downs and struggled by on rationed food ten years after the war. Used brown paper bags for school book backs and other things. Knitted, darned and sewed while hubby was away at sea until he drowned-- and then.... "Plastic bags aren't good for the environment!" The young cashier piped out again... "Your generation has so much to answer for!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmarti1 Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Wow. and only radio to cheer the dim-lit rooms. and struggled by on rationed food ten years after the war. Bravo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share Posted March 9, 2015 So much change in the space of one lifetime. I shudder at the rapid escalation of technology. We seem to stretch our metaphorical head forward as a species and yet in many ways are reluctant (or unable) to haul the metaphorical body with it.... And if the neck should part??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 an excellent poem-one of your best-Benjamin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Really a delight, yes indeed, 'lost worlds' replaced by this flatland future. Well, well done. Juris Quote thegateless.org Come on over and check out my poetry substack y'all;-) Or if your bored, head to the Zazzle store: https://www.zazzle.com/store/gateless. If you buy anything I lose a bet, so consider that before you violate the digital rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W. Parsley Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 A little perspective, anyone? Of course the next generation is obliged to see what work is at hand, to learn from the past, etc. BUT! In some ways that just means each is trying to hand the next, a world that is better with less privation and desperation. We do well to remember the price, the expenditure of love in its labors. Thank You, Geoff. - Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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