On my own; society, stigma and my generation
I am reading a great new book, courtesy of my new addiction to Bookswim, called On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone by Florence Falk. It is fabulous on many levels, and even in the fact that so many of the mindsets the book teaches/ suggests are those that I have already realized and begun to embody on my own (pun not intended - but cute
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I too find myself distracted by technology and sometimes think of the more constructive ways I should be spending my time instead. I would really accomplish so much more in a day...
Speaking of today's kids, it's kinda seems a bit different that they all have cell phones. We didnt, I remember when they first came out it seems and I didnt get one until I was 19, although I remember some of my peers getting them a couple years before me... Wow, it seems so long ago when no one had cell phones and used to rely simply on landline phones... My parents had black and white tv's and remember getting color tv's too. My mom has talked about how she had typewriter classes in high school...
It is amazing how much time has changed.. I really liked the 90's they were probably my favorite and I really love a lot of 90's music... Oh yeah, and mixed tapes of songs recorded off the radio before there were cd's.. wow, that seems so long ago... I agree we did totally come from a cool generation!
Thanks for writing this, it really made me think about a lot of lovely simple times :)
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