1.08.2009

Discovery

I helped Mom clean out Mari's closet today. Mari is my grandmother. She's 98 and wanted to re-visit the past and make room for new clothing purchases. We found documents and letters from the 1800s. I ate lunch while reading the Boston Gazette from March 2, 1801.

Amazing to read a letter from John Adams to Congress regarding his Washington DC property. A notice about a runaway indentured apprentice. A music teacher who opened a school in her apartment. Starch imported from Poland at .10 a pound. A man who lost a ten and twenty dollar bill and needed it returned. A letter of appreciation from the state of Massachusetts to the U.S. President. Amazing that I touched a document nearly as old as our Constitution. Read letters and deeds to Property owned by someone named Hopeful.

A good start to 2009...missing all the good things our country used to be.
Where is our honor?
When will we choose to put down the curly fries and take up our pride? Turn off the reality TV and start living our own lives? Stop subscribing to the celebrity pap and start realizing our potential?
It's time now.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow, that must have been something, reading some of those old documents.

Hope you are having a great, forward moving year so far, I agree with the last part of your post 100%.

Oh, hi, its Cathy btw.