Celebrating the modern world in old-time, and modern Phoenix, Arizona

In my younger days I often worried about what kind of old person I would become. My opinion of old people was varied, from "yikes, I don't wanna ever be like that!" to admiration for how life had made them wise. And perhaps the most admired old people that I knew would be the ones who would embrace the modern world, not reject it. And that's the old person that I wanted to grow up to be, and it's happening.

I wasn't in Phoenix when automobiles were invented, or when electricity arrived, but I like to imagine that there were people "of age" who embraced those things, and celebrated them. Of course the stereotypical old person is always saying stuff like "get a horse!" and that "candles are safer than that gul-derned electrical stuff!"

Time-travel with me, and let's go to old-time Phoenix as old-timers. But not the stereotypical kind, but the kind that would be willing to go visit a friend on Millionaire's Row who had recently wired their house with the new electricity. I can picture people being frightened by the new technology, of course, and turning away from it, but we're embracing it.

In this fantasy we're old school chums who maybe fought together (or against each other) in the Civil War. But that was a long time ago, we're older and wiser now. I'm pleased to see that life has made you not just healthy and wise, but wealthy, and I appreciate being able to ride in your "horseless carriage".

OK, everyone is here, and the sun is going down, so it's getting a little dark. Now, at a signal, the electrical chandelier is switched on, and it's amazing. What a wonder, and how lucky we are to have lived long enough to see it!

And more wonders yet to come!

Thank you for the encouragement! If you want to see daily pics of my adventures on my recumbent trike in suburban Phoenix (just for fun, of course!) you can follow me on buymeacoffee.com/bradhall, and you can buy me a coffee if you'd like to!