History Lesson

Ella, my love, what will you inherit? Watching the news I worry for the future. Long gone are the clips that celebrate the birth of twenty kittens and the success of a local lemonade stand. Lately there is so much news journalists are struggling to keep up. Between the economy, the decaying environment and mounting tensions abroad, the news is full of somber faces with even more somber predictions. Did our parents worry this much when we were born? What the hell was even happening in 1976? If I'm not mistaken, the US and Iran brokered a $10 billion arms deal and an Apple computer was made in a California garage. Like that has any significance today...Ha! Maybe today's headlines will be reduced to an after-thought. A mother can wish, can't she?