What a lovely day you had, l---y. I am so glad. Your post made me think of several things, none particularly connected to another. First, it made me remember that tomorrow is Mother's Day. I suppose this will reveal how selfish I am, but. The one thing so many of us mothers who are still raising kids would like the most is the one thing that we cannot ask for on this day of all days: a temporary vacation from motherhood. How I love the rare occasions when I don't have to worry about getting supper together by a certain time, or whether there are clean clothes and milk for tomorrow morning.
You and I are alike in many ways, my friend, but not in all ways. I very much appreciate the privilege of hearing music that moves me, and learning new and interesting facts if I happen to catch something on TV. (For ex., the fact that the platypus has venom, and can squirt it from its hind feet.) Reading has taken me to even higher levels of wonder, as has my access to the internet.
Without doubt, yes, I am fortunate to have been born in the age of information. But it comes with a price. Different kinds, in fact. One kind that is particular to me is the fact that I prefer not to know about unpleasantness that I can do nothing at all about. Only--once you know a thing, you cannot un-know it. I am still sorry that I read "Old Yeller"; the agony that my imagination put into that little dog still haunts me after 40 years.
One price that is common to all of us here is due to the fact that there is too MUCH information. Nobody could ever read everything that's on the internet. So we must choose what we look at, leaving us to wonder about what we're missing. Then there's the question of reliability--how do we decide when to believe what we've read? Our present-day wealth of sources, in whatever media, does indeed offer access to more information than in any prior era, but...just how much of this is mis-information? Not that this is anything new to mankind--think of the old medicine shows, for ex. But there is so much MORE of it, now.
However, warts and all, the information superhighway is here to stay, and I for one believe it has done/will do a lot more good than harm.
P.S.--I love your vision.
