So this is what 2010 is like. When I was a kid in fourth grade, we had this collection of books we could read for credit. The one we all fought to get was one called 2010 (no, not the Arthur C. Clarke book), and it depicted what the world was supposed to be like then. It was heavy on computers, robots, space travel, cities in the sky...the typical vision of what 30 years in the future would be like.
Now it actually is 2010. And the real 2010 is an awful lot like how it was in 1982, when I read that book. I don't know how I should feel about that.
All I do know is that it's a new year, and a new start. We're having our usual New Year's lunch: cornbread, stewed tomatoes, corn, pinto beans, blackeyed peas, and collard greens. You always have collard greens on New Year's, because it's supposed to bring wealth in the new year. Gotta eat lots of those, y'know.
Now it actually is 2010. And the real 2010 is an awful lot like how it was in 1982, when I read that book. I don't know how I should feel about that.
All I do know is that it's a new year, and a new start. We're having our usual New Year's lunch: cornbread, stewed tomatoes, corn, pinto beans, blackeyed peas, and collard greens. You always have collard greens on New Year's, because it's supposed to bring wealth in the new year. Gotta eat lots of those, y'know.
Resolutions? None so far. Instead, I'd like to substitute "hope" for "resolutions." It's my hope that the new year will bring a new job, and a new and fulfilling mission, for hubby. If that will happen, I'll forgive 2010 for the lack of personal jetpacks.
(As a side note, here's a neat piece about the now-gone Omni magazine and its vision of the future. Boy, does that bring back memories. I never read Omni, but I sure know how those times felt.)
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