Returning to Normal

With my mom back home I am now returning to my normal routine, which includes updating my blog. I have also now returned to waking up before 6:00 am! at least today anyway.

Now I need to return to blogging thoughts and to get my inspiration I will go back to random words. Let us see - neat, orderly, light, dark, green, recipe, posting, coffee (be right back - I need to make some) i'm BACK!

Random words are not working today. Getting up to make the coffee helped me - similarities -- is the work I thought of while trying to fix the cup the coffee grounds go in. Similarities, yes that will be my blog today.

When I started my story I wanted my readers to see the great similarities between the turn of the century back then and 200 years later for us now.

• They had the industrial revolution and we have the information one. Their lives would change dramatically before they died. We have undergone significant change with all the digital stuff: TV's, Ipod's, blackberry handhelds, email, online shopping, forums, publishing, news, and everything in between. The internet has made the world tiny. It used to be a small world and now it is just teeny tiny. Information is as powerful as knowledge. Well, I ramble and I am sure you get the picture.

• Politics. Yes, there were similarities- Whigs, Tories and now (I can only really write as an American because I understand how our government works) we have the Conservatives and Liberals (or Republicans and Democrats - or in Britain it is the Labor Party vs. I guess it is still the Tories) But the push is the same - elevation to a higher standing and being the group in control of the reins.
  

• Families. They had their good members and bad members and well, I don't really think much has changed. Greed, jealousy, happiness all still exist today. Some familes are close and others are not. Some siblings are rivals and others co-exist fine. Families have not changed except we no longer give everything to the eldest.
  

• Progress. Yes, the young people seem to want more and more swift progress and us old folks like to go slower. I really cannot keep up with the changes these days (although I think the speed in which changes come has slowed down recently). Progress is fine as long as you don't throw out the best of the past.
  

• War - Hostilities away from home and fighting two fronts at a time - they had Napoleon and the war of 1812 and we have Afghanistan and Iraq (although they are part and parcel of the same war) - Back then it was the "little people" trying to grab their place in ruling themselves and today we have the "little people" trying to overcome dictators. I know it seems like a stretch but it is there underneath it all. Dictators come in all kinds of packages. The argument for war never really changes.

• Transportation. Ok, our rich young people fly around in private jets. John Travolta files his own plane (think of Rawlings driving his own carriage) but still the rich young men have the best of transportation of the time. No rickety wagons for them.

Well, these were just a few similarities. I also have a bunch of ironies. (a witty Mr. Bennet sought a lively girl just as Rawlings does with Lydia).

Those were some of my thoughts when I began. Now if I was able to present them is a different story.

Now that I am back on schedule I am off to finish polishing the rest of 38 and maybe 39 if I can sit for any length of time. My sciatia is bothering me (and happens when I sit for too long.)

till tomorrow

gayle