The changes she saw
In her hundred year long life
Human time machine
My grandmother lived to be one hundred and a half. Born in 1908, these are just some of the changes she saw in her lifetime:
Horses to cars
Outhouses to indoor plumbing
Homemade to store bought
Electric appliances
The zipper
Home radio
Television
Invention of antibiotics
Aerosol cans
Biplanes to jets
Rockets
Paper to plastic
Paper to digital
Computers
Landlines to cellphones
Humans exploring deep sea
Humans exploring outer space
What an amazing time to have been alive.
In response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Change
I am a scientist by trade and artist by soul. My creative outlet used to be dancing but due to injuries and age, I must now find another path. I am hoping my writing, poetry and photography can be this new path.
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September 27, 2015 at 5:55 pm
Great Post! Cheryl
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September 27, 2015 at 6:02 pm
Thank you!
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September 27, 2015 at 6:25 pm
Such a lovely tribute to her! Nice to have longevity in your family!
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September 27, 2015 at 6:39 pm
Thanks! I sure hope I got the good genes. So far so good!
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September 27, 2015 at 7:01 pm
Pretty amazing the changes she’s been party to. I wonder what changes are in store for my kids’ lifetimes.
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September 27, 2015 at 7:04 pm
Great point! We don’t know what we don’t know. Who would have imagined all the things we have seen so I often wonder what’s in store for the future.
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September 27, 2015 at 7:10 pm
I keep waiting for the Jetsons kinda stuff. I’d settle for affordable solar energy.
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September 27, 2015 at 7:30 pm
I am just on the plus side of fifty, and when I think of the technological changes in my own lifetime… especially considering the acceleration in the last 20 years. I wonder how primitive my own childhood will seem should I ever make the century mark.
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September 27, 2015 at 7:35 pm
Yea, I’m kinda bummed we don’t have flying pods yet. I’m sick of traffic plus flying is cool.
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September 27, 2015 at 7:41 pm
Ditto. I’m on the ++ side and I can wait to see what’s next.
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September 27, 2015 at 7:54 pm
Haha! Agreed! 🙂
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September 27, 2015 at 8:46 pm
Your grandma is so lucky to live more than a hundred years old. My grandma is on her 96th birthday come November. I hope she lives to a hundred, too! Cheers!
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September 27, 2015 at 8:55 pm
Aw, that is wonderful! The odds are once they make it that far they will make to 100. Mine passed away six months after her 100th birthday in 2008 and while I miss her, she had such a good, long life I can’t be sad about it.
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September 27, 2015 at 10:25 pm
Always wonder what they’ll say about changes during our lifetimes, don’t you?!
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September 27, 2015 at 10:54 pm
Absolutely. I am sure there will be great discoveries and I wish I could see them all.
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September 28, 2015 at 4:06 am
Truly amazing
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September 28, 2015 at 5:02 am
It;s great to take the time to ponder the changes in a lifetime and your Grandma certainly lived at a time when change was rapid and intense
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September 28, 2015 at 6:57 am
She was. Thank you.
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September 28, 2015 at 7:03 am
I loved hearing the stories she told. They were never the “back in my day” variety. She would just relay funny stories about life in general -like outhouse pranks, bathing in a metal tub in the kitchen filled with water from a hand pump and learning to drive her first car when there were few paved roads, but the differences in technology was glaringly apparent.
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September 28, 2015 at 10:04 pm
My dad’s 94 now and I was always amazed when he told us about all the changes he’s seen in his life. I wonder what they really think seeing all the technology we have available now compared to what they grew up with… Great take on ‘Change’!
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September 28, 2015 at 10:17 pm
Thank you! Wow sounds like a cool Dad. Hopefully he’ll be around awhile longer to witness even more change.
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September 28, 2015 at 10:57 pm
Not sure about that. He’s still around and okay but Dementia is getting worse so I’m not sure how much he is actually taking in anymore.
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September 28, 2015 at 11:17 pm
Oh, I’m so sorry. That is a tough for the whole family.
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September 29, 2015 at 2:22 am
He had such an amazing life. I hope for him that the rest of it will be good too.
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September 29, 2015 at 8:17 am
❤ Excellent. Sometimes I feel it too, my 100 coming up, eventually. 🙂 I already have two landmark changes gathered: adding the 9th class to the primary school in country of origin (Slovenia; we used to scare each other with that as kids!), and seeing the funicular having been built to the little molehill with the castle in the capital. I mean, really!!!
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September 30, 2015 at 5:02 am
Wow, sounds great! She was a lucky woman to have seen all of that. It reminds me of a movie they’re about to bring out in Ireland, called “older than Ireland”, a documentary so to say about people over a hundred years old… The preview looks so nice!!!
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September 30, 2015 at 5:13 am
That sounds like a great documentary. Maybe someone will pick it up for distribution on this side of the pond.
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September 30, 2015 at 9:11 am
I think they’re planning on going overseas with it! They have a facebook site where they keep posting news.
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September 30, 2015 at 11:17 am
Cool! I will look for it.
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October 2, 2015 at 5:12 pm
Some embrace it and some are afraid of change. With the digital age everything changes so quickly it is hard to keep up but at the same time more people learn adapt to that rapid change. I just hope I never lose that sense of wonderment that comes with embracing new things.
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October 2, 2015 at 9:24 pm
My granny died just a few months before the first step on the moon. She had grown up in the Smoky Mountains. I often thought of the changes she saw, survived and relished.
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October 2, 2015 at 9:35 pm
I’ll bet she was one heck of a resourceful survivor.
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October 3, 2015 at 7:01 am
Love the opening haiku. The birthday cake feels symbolic and looks delicious too! I wonder what the changes in the next 100 years will be. The list is inspiring.
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October 3, 2015 at 7:04 am
I agree! Thank you.
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October 20, 2015 at 8:09 am
Hale and hardy were grandma’s discoveries, Christy. How will history remember the hurly-burly changes in our lifetime, I wonder.
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