Random thoughts on...Our History
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Monday, April 21, 2008 8:01 PM
So I have been indulging the American History nerd in me, and I have watched all of the episodes of the John Adams miniseries on HBO. Besides being super impressed with the miniseries as a whole, I was kind of struck by how much of women's history is known only through letters, and how no one writes to anyone anymore.
I text, I email, I blog, but I never write anyone, and no one writes me either. It's just interesting to think how our history as American women is going to be viewed differently in 200 years. Will our Nestie blogs survive, and will future women be relieved to know that we face the same issues they will? Or will our thoughts to each other be lost and only interpreted second or third hand, or relying only on those of us who are good and write journals or save our posts for our posterity?
Hmm, just some thoughts. After hearing the letters between John and Abigail Adams on the miniseries, I totally realized that NONE of the feelings and thoughts DH and I have to or for each other, has been recorded on paper, only on random IM conversations we might have saved. It's sad to realize that our thoughts about when we first met and when we were at college are totally lost, since I am in a totally different frame of mind now than I was then.
Just interesting....I think the plaster dust is finally effecting my brain!