we ALL miss them.
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i wish my son could have known what the world was like back then.....
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I was born in 1951 in the Ozarks and in two years I will leave the big city life style and return to my roots
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To the post above this one. GOOD FOR YOU !!!!Leaving the big city and going back to the Ozarks. God Bless You and help you in making this wonderful change. Are you the OP ?
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*i am the op and although i am not returning to the ozarks, i am returning to the family farm to raise my son in the house i was born in! i hope he realizes one day what a gift it is :)
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Thanks for responding OP.You made my heart smile tonight. For Sure...What a wonderful thing to do for your Son.And what a tribute to your family.Good for you for making this decision.Take care and enjoy a simplier life.LESS is MORE
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I miss them too but I cannot return to the place of my youth. Progress has ruined it.
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Great pic..and wonderful thought..Good luck to You!
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^^who shIt in your cheerios?!? lots of good stuff happened too....haven't you ever watched little house on the prairie?
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...and Ozzie and Harriet with the Beaver ?
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To 5th from the top: No, I'm not the OP. But I have photos of myself at an early age and they resemble this picture. I am the 4th generation to inherit 125 acres of timber and pasture land in NW Arkansas. I love dirt roads in the countryafter a light rain has fallen.Phoenix, AZ
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2 Up - Dirt roads in the country after a light rain.... I can smell the rain in my memory....from childhood. Sounds wonderful and peaceful. So happy for you to have that beautiful land. So good to hear of land being handed down and loved.
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It's amazing what a rosy little picture people have of the "good old days". It was not like Leave It to Beaver - it was McCarthyism, Red Scare, religious fundamentalism, and racism. Learn to read a little, people.
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^so how is that different from today. Oh, wait...all of those things are gone now.
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3up..after a late summer rain fall squirrelshop about in the wet pasture grasses hiding walnuts they collected from trees in the yard. At night the sky shines brightly with stars and the milky way splashes it's wonder across the universe. It is truely wonderful...........
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1 up - So glad you can rise above the ugly comments and keep your mind on the good things and the simple things that add meaning to life.I have a simple cabin on a dirt road. I sit out many nights with a bonfire...staring up at the night sky. So bright when away from city lights. I learned years ago to simplify life and it has brought me much joy.
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3 up...^^^...no, just racism is gone-look at D.C.
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*to all the negative responses.....the good old days to me means borrowing a cup of sugar from the neighbor for my sisters birthday cake, or feeding horses in the pasture apples from our orchard, or spending hours down by the pond catching bull frogs or racing birch bark boats in the stream under the bridge.....my greatest wish is to pass that on to my son!
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^ wow.... talk about selective memory
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You can't go home again..... it's much better to stay where you are and build a new life with new values. The old values got us in trouble to begin with.
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*^^not selective, i just choose to look at the glass half full instead of half empty like you do! there are so many wonderful things in life, why spend your time focusing on negative thinking when positive thinking will get you so much further in life:) as for the response above me, you can go home again as long as your family is there waiting for you!!!!
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^*well i have lived in the city for the past ten years and there is very little here of value, unless you consider being able to get to a liquor store or a crack house within 5 minutes or less valuable. i'm not sure where you are from, but the community that i grew up in was never like that. i went to school with the same 20 kids from k-12th grade, i can still remember the entire town packing the high school gym at the christmas pageant and singing holly jolly christmas to each other at the very end in celebration. i am still very close friends with many of them to this day and although you seem to have a tainted view of country people, my experience has never been anything other than wonderful!
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I miss drive-in theaters!
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2Up - Maybe where you are, but not where I am in the country. There are some wonderful people left on this earth. Isn't it ironic the number of comments this person got on this simple. basic living ...be happy post.That is a sign that many people want it to be simplier. And I miss drive in theaters too !
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OOPS I meant 3 Up ...sorry
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4^That sounds awesome.
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These ARE the good old days.
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It sounds like some people wish they could go back to what they remembered, and some people hate it. To each their own, but really things are constantly changing. To the OP, please keep in mind that if your child wasn't born in that environment, it may not work out like you hope. They may not appreciate it like you do. I've been that child. I know. I had to move away from my friends, stores being near us, etc. It sucked for a long time, just because my mom and stepdad wanted to go back to something that wasn't really there anymore.
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*^ well my son is 12 weeks old so i dont think that will be a problem....and trust me, living on ten acres with his own pond is a lot better than living across the street from a crackwhore. he will thank me one day when he inherits it all :)
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YAY!!--enjoy your simple, BEAUTIFUL life with your son in the country!! That pond sounds awful nice...the crack whore, not so much...
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The man in overalls reminds of my father who worked in a foundry when I was little. But the "good old days" were not so good for women, kids, and of course for colored people, who took their lives in their hands just trying to vote. Life's big rule: You can't turn back the clock because nothing ever stays like it was.
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