Pandora"s Box 2015


Remember before computers and phones

How growing up took like forever

We hung around in record stores

Or sent away to have our favorite artist shipped to us

There was no sampling

The kitchen table was a place where family sat and ate

Discussed what was going on

Not a docking station for IPads, smartphones and junk mail pile up

The big ticket gifts for birthdays and Christmas

Bikes, your favorite record maybe even a concert ticket

It used to be a series of small gifts

Now out of convenience it elaborate electronics

Because like after all what six year old would be caught without

The latest and greatest smartphone

Yes, times have changed and yes I am that age

That can recall simplicity and being grateful

Not to mention being able to stir up fun out doors

Or being able to handle not being entertained 24/7

Pandora’s Box has been opened and cannot be closed

My childhood memories are now retro, history

Clothes, music and television gets rediscovered, recycled

Each generation breathes new life in old things

Will there be any takers to bring back simplicity?

Or do we just deal with the monsters of the new age

Like our parents did and their parents

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