Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A Return To All Things Organic

Is it just an age thing or is the electronic age making all of us fuzzy-minded? Back in the early 50's and 60's, daily life was quite simple and organic. Just tap in and watch an old 'Mayberry RFD' or 'Leave It To Beaver' re-run if you didn't actually live thru it. You'll get an instant sense of 'clean, healthy living' when it wasn't actually labeled that. Yikes! What 40 in-between years can do!

Ipods, computers, cell phones and 'texting' are such the rage...but at what price shall our bio-energetic human bodies pay for all the 'time saving' products we've invented? While we madly attempt to drive, put on make-up, text a pal and dictate into our voice activated devices, we think we're so-o-o-efficient. But at the end of the day, we're all scrambling to health clubs and yoga studios and attempting to prod our overly burdened bodies to suddenly, in 1 hour flat, de-stress.

Just what is wrong with being simple minded and sitting by a river with a fishing pole anyway? One way to go back to easy living is to go cold turkey. Let it all go. Get a li'l ol
turntable, a few records and dance on the porch with your honey. You may have to wake up the next morning to the ol' ratrace all over again, but for one night...one simple, humble and ordinary night....you can just 'be' that. Simple, easy-going and actually relaxed!

Then 'We'll sing in the sunshine....we'll laugh every day-aa-ya-yeah...we'll sing in the sunshine...then I'll be on my way!' OK. Quick trivia! Who wrote and sang that song? No cheating on the internet! Exercise your MEMORY or engage in actual human relations and ask 'Pops'.