Not living in the past yet I remember....
Still fond memories of yore. A time of pen-to-paper in order to send a letter to someone, or a way of communicating and given time, from one Capital city, to another Stare Capital, your letter arrived in perhaps two or three weeks. Now it is down to three or four days max. But who writes anymore, for we have instant gratification via the internet. Patience and hopeful expectations have flown out of the window and it is all of the now that fills our lives in almost everything.
We post a photo and before the ink has dried, there are comments and responses awaiting our expected desires.
A little further afield, deep space, it is the same tale so I have included a time frame of receiving a voice message from …….
Earth-Moon370,300 km 1.3 seconds
Earth-Mars401 million km. 3 - 21 minutes
Earth-Jupiter580 million km 33 - 53 minutes
Earth-Pluto~5800 million km 5 hours
Earth-Nearest Star~9.5 million, million km 4 years.
Far too much for me to get my head around so I think I should pour myself a drink and wander off into the garden, where things change at a much slower pace and only from Season to Season.
Cheers!
And to Each Season.... Rod McKuen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtfMZsH9lL0&list=RDQtfMZsH9lL0
The obvious truth within the poem, that became a song, is that Rod was alway honest in what he was and what he felt. A song about his inner thoughts on being gay and what touched him and filled his heart.
What a most beautiful sole he was.
Not living in the past yet I remember....
Still fond memories of yore. A time of pen-to-paper in order to send a letter to someone, or a way of communicating and given time, from one Capital city, to another Stare Capital, your letter arrived in perhaps two or three weeks. Now it is down to three or four days max. But who writes anymore, for we have instant gratification via the internet. Patience and hopeful expectations have flown out of the window and it is all of the now that fills our lives in almost everything.
We post a photo and before the ink has dried, there are comments and responses awaiting our expected desires.
A little further afield, deep space, it is the same tale so I have included a time frame of receiving a voice message from …….
Earth-Moon370,300 km 1.3 seconds
Earth-Mars401 million km. 3 - 21 minutes
Earth-Jupiter580 million km 33 - 53 minutes
Earth-Pluto~5800 million km 5 hours
Earth-Nearest Star~9.5 million, million km 4 years.
Far too much for me to get my head around so I think I should pour myself a drink and wander off into the garden, where things change at a much slower pace and only from Season to Season.
Cheers!
And to Each Season.... Rod McKuen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtfMZsH9lL0&list=RDQtfMZsH9lL0
The obvious truth within the poem, that became a song, is that Rod was alway honest in what he was and what he felt. A song about his inner thoughts on being gay and what touched him and filled his heart.
What a most beautiful sole he was.