There was a Time

I’m old enough to recall using a rotary dial telephone, recording songs from a transistor radio onto a tape recorder – using cassette tapes, playing records on a mono three-speed portable record player, watching black and white television on a cathode ray tube TV and only three channels with aluminum foil on the rabbit ears and no remote controller, Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, a manual typewriter and driving a vehicle with a high/low headlight beam button on the floor, a three-speed transmission or anti-lock brakes. We didn’t have power steering, seat belts, answering machines, microwaves, video tape cassette recorders or the need for surge-protectors — but we did do a lot of playing outside — nearly everyday.

Lord, thanks for being so good to me…