My grandmother, Johnsey Blanche Ingrham Pickens saw many things in her lifetime. I am sure she heard about the Wright Brothers when that plane flew off Kitty Hawk. She didn't see it because there was no TV. But it happened. I wonder, now that I can't ask her, if that had any meaning for her at all at that time. Probably not. Why would it?
Flying would mean something to her later, when at 83 (did I get that right?) she went to Switzerland with my aunt and uncle and had a blast.
In her lifetime, the Wright Brothers ran that plane off Kitty Hawk, a man landed on the moon, and a space shuttle blew up.
I watched that Space Shuttle land last week and I'm wondering about my own life. When I was a kid I saw separate bathrooms for "coloreds" and "whites"I didn't get it. As an adult white woman I went to Howard to get my MSW. Best decision I ever made.
Now I am in position to go forward. What's going to happen big in my lifetime? I hope I have something to do with it.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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