Feelings aren't easily described and if not factually based they may lose relevance to those not sharing those opinions.
At the same time my feelings for those wonderfully hopeful years of the late 40's and early 50's seem appropriate to share. The nation had gone through a major depression and a major war and we survived! People were alive with hope. Military folks were coming back to their idealized home towns to live their long delayed dreams with those that had mightily supported their heroic efforts.
Anything was possible and our town certainly reflected this hope. The town was bustling with activity and our generation enjoyed this prosperity of emotion after years of downtrodden reality. There was no dearth of positive competitive material to hone our abilities along with companionship from an abundance of outstanding peers. Everything was good.
The underlying face of a new reality did not negatively impact us at first as we marched ahead. But the hidden onrushing change of our basic economy short-changed those hopes and now only a few of us live in that marred utopia. Perhaps many of us of that era will always maintain that idealistic hope for the future as we age into obscurity.
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Wonderful thoughts, Phil. Although I am not sure what you said. But I agree. By the way, tell Gary that I am now getting the updates on my email???
Do you feel you never caught the Brass Ring Phil? We are all "aging into obscurity" in our own way. I know you still intertain and delight your fellow bloggers with your wit and incisive comments. You STILL GOT IT FRIEND!
P.S. Can you tell about the graphics? The Utopia sign? Where is it from? What country?
Don, there is a 'Lahaymeix' in France.
Those of us who "caught the brass ring" as Don terms it above, thought we were reaching for gold. What a surprise to find that it was base metal. To have lived long enough to find that the real gold is not 'out there' at all and doesn't relate to what we in the 1950s thought of as "success" is a real gift. I surmise that you have found that vein of gold, Phil. Keep musing. I'm enjoying your post while looking out at the island of Ionia, off the coast of Scotland.
I am impressed. I didn't know you guys were so deep.
Yea...but deep in what?
Haven't figured that out yet.
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