A remarkable couple.

[sipowicz]

[DeathGrip]

Reminds me about a lot of folks I know.God bless them all.

There's some other things on that site that are good also.

Thanks

[NFrameFred]

I find there are lots of remarkable people left if you take the time to seek them out, and I'm curious to see in this vapid age of "me" how many truly remarkable people there are in these latest generations. Only time will tell.

Popular culture seems to tend to look to the accomplishments of the young for the remarkable, but the prism of time sifts all that out, what is valuable and lasting, verses what is splashy and popular at the moment.

I look at what has transpired and the changes I've seen in my time on this earth and it gives me an ever increasing appreciation for what older folks have to say. These types of interviews are a treasure. I felt the same way about the interviews with the Nazi concentration camp survivors. So much is lost and has to be learned all over again when these folks pass with no one to make a record of their observations and experiences. One cannot but be moved and affected by just hearing people honestly relating the human condition.

Thanks for the link.

[venomballistics]

Originally Posted by NFrameFred

I find there are lots of remarkable people left if you take the time to seek them out, and I'm curious to see in this vapid age of "me" how many truly remarkable people there are in these latest generations. Only time will tell.

Popular culture seems to tend to look to the accomplishments of the young for the remarkable, but the prism of time sifts all that out, what is valuable and lasting, verses what is splashy and popular at the moment.

I look at what has transpired and the changes I've seen in my time on this earth and it gives me an ever increasing appreciation for what older folks have to say. These types of interviews are a treasure. I felt the same way about the interviews with the Nazi concentration camp survivors. So much is lost and has to be learned all over again when these folks pass with no one to make a record of their observations and experiences. One cannot but be moved and affected by just hearing people honestly relating the human condition.

Thanks for the link.

sometimes its a matter of what your looking for.
I have a nephew out of my marriage who is clearly one of the dreaded crackberry zombies of the new breed. He seems to have no understanding of how the world works and is hard to converse with since you pretty much have to text him ... even if your in the same room!!!. Its like its too difficult for him to just open his mouth and speak.
Its very easy to make the assumption that he is a hollow slightly animated shell of the human species.
with some exquisite timing and the threat of issuing his man card for the sole purpose of revoking it, I was able to show him the basic tuning and playing of the guitar.
it wasnt long after that, and while rough, there is the unmistakable essence of soul coming out of that cheap six string of his.
there may be hope.
Meanwhile ... Back behind the cheddar curtain, is another nephew of mine.
in contrast, he knows how to text though it isnt the center of his world.
He's a driven lad and as old school as they have ever made a young punk in history.
I gave him a strat clone for Christmas ... with a catch. He had to build it since it was a kit
there are some that want it bad enough to earn it of their hands in this generation.