Saturday, November 06, 2010

Taking things for granted

The thing about the things you take for granted is that because you take them for granted, you don't know that you do.

Watching a pleasant Masterpiece Theatre series about a traditional English village in the Victorian 1840's. The railway is coming to them and they resist and fear it. Funny scene when the village matriarch gets her posse to give it a try and these country women first ride it. Apprehension, fear, unheard of speed, exhilaration...It must have been like our first ride on a roller coaster was for us...with a bit of Cape Canaveral thrown in.


Things we take for granted, and now even find antique, were once as new and exciting as our novelties are to us.

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