My grandmother, Inez Stephens Barber McDaniel was born August 5 1909. She liveed to be 99 years and 9 months old. She would be turning 102 in a couple of days.
I recently saw a headline of an article "What our childeren will never know". It was about technology that our childeren will never imagine living without. It made me reflect on my grandmother, and all that she had seen in her almost 100 years on this earth and how amazing all of it had to be to her. Everything from instant coffee to color television, jet engines to wireless internet. Everything that came about in the 20th century, she saw. Most of those things we all take for granted, just like the childeren from now will take what amazes us for granted. They will take the internet for granted. Something that amazes me on a daily basis, whether I am skyping with my sweetie, my son in Kuwait or my grandchilderen. It amazes me when I am listening to a Dutch radio program with my friend Sunny in Nashville or watching a live tornado with my friend Cyn in Toledo Ohio. Mamaw saw a piece of this this too.
Just a couple of weeks before she passed away she got to do one of the things that would probably amaze her the most. She got to Skype, and talk to her grandaughter that was over 4000 miles away. Not bad!
I will always miss my grandmother. She wasnt technology, but she was AMAZING!
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