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This blog is by my good friend and mentor, who is also an Elder for a local PCA congregation. He is one of the wisest men I know.

From the blog title:

That's How I Remember It........

The fallible recollections of one who was blessed to grow up in a wonderful family with exemplary parents in a small Southern town with corresponding values. It is written in an attempt to share these joys with family, friends, and anyone else who was not so lucky!

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here is a sample:

The Theory on the Downfall of Neighbors and Neighborhoods....

Today it is hard to find a person that knows everyone that lives within a tenth of a mile in all directions. In cities, this would mean with a city block. But I grew up in a time when we knew EVERYBODY. We knew what they did for a living, where they went to church, who had visited them within the last month, and what the names of their pets were. We knew what clubs they belonged to and their children's grades in school. We knew everything we needed to know and most of the things we probably shouldn't have known.

What happened? A friend of mine in California told me while I was visiting him that he had yet to meet one of his next door neighbors but he had been busy and he had only lived in his current residence for about two years. After I stopped laughing at the idea of not even knowing who was around him, I began thinking if I was any better. Did I know my neighbors? And, if not, why?

And after diligent research and investigation I was able to develop the infallible (but not widely accepted) theory for the downfall of neighborhoods and social interaction within communities. The fault should be placed squarely on the shoulders of Air Conditioning.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

J.D.,

I thought you were asking for advice. Thanks for the heads up. Don't forget about this: http://www.puritanboard.com/local_links.php?catid=1

 

[panta dokimazete]

J.D.,

I thought you were asking for advice. Thanks for the heads up. Don't forget about this: http://www.puritanboard.com/local_links.php?catid=1

I did! thanks!

 

[beej6]

Air Conditioning? Clever, but I would rate television and the "two income household" movement ahead of AC. Television because it's a distraction, a diversion, and demands little of us socially. "Two income household" because who is around to socialize with neighbors if both adults are away during the day?

And, of course, the withering away of the church as community.

 

[Craig]

Air Conditioning? Clever, but I would rate television and the "two income household" movement ahead of AC. Television because it's a distraction, a diversion, and demands little of us socially. "Two income household" because who is around to socialize with neighbors if both adults are away during the day?

And, of course, the withering away of the church as community.

Perhaps A/C was the precursur to needing a two income household...and then we needed more T.V. to fill in the empty "comfy" time we have and watch our children while we work to finance these "comforts".

I like that blog. Good stuff.

 

[panta dokimazete]

Thanks, Craig - he really has a way of invoking the past in a warm and witty way - and he is just like that in person, too!

 

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