tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post1965711106163218974..comments2023-10-22T20:53:58.823-04:00Comments on String Too Short to Tie: Willful Ignorance #Tvanillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11978025976591113499noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-14107563957111916212022-10-21T15:45:44.407-04:002022-10-21T15:45:44.407-04:00Jim, it is the case, I think, that we grow comfort...Jim, it is the case, I think, that we grow comfortable with "our ways," and gradually and increasingly finding new ways to be irritating, as though, perhaps, being stirred out of our comfort zone is no longer a challenge as it might have been in our younger day, but rather an annoyance. Yet consider where we might have been today had everyone dug in his heels and refused to adapt to new ideas. <br /><br />Chuck, my problem, if I have one (!) may be that nostalgia pushes me in the direction of preference for the world as my father knew it; as I remember it as it was when I was a child; as it perhaps never was.vanillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978025976591113499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-63182035863561572162022-10-21T12:30:44.440-04:002022-10-21T12:30:44.440-04:00Excellent story. you forgot to mention masterful ...Excellent story. you forgot to mention masterful weaver of tales, but perhaps that's one of the things generations of your family share.<br /><br />To each generation its own technology. My dad and I tried to live a little in each others world. It worked. A little bit.Secondary Roadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05116234285533139701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-16466803108782923892022-10-21T10:17:09.713-04:002022-10-21T10:17:09.713-04:00Nice to see you here again.
Fascinating tales. It...Nice to see you here again.<br /><br />Fascinating tales. It does seem like granddad and dad just decided not to move forward into the future. You don't appear to have done that, however. You just don't always like this future!<br /><br />I am starting to experience, in my mid 50s, the desire to not have to learn new ways. It's not that I judge the new ways harshly, just that I'm growing tired of the endless cycle of learning.Jim Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941665968757241278noreply@blogger.com