It seems like so long ago hearing the rattling of a typewriter. I was in the last class in high school to learn typing on a typewriter, before it all going to a computer screen. It made for covering up mistakes quite the process. Maybe getting back to the racket would be worth it.
I think smells take me back more than sounds, as recently stepping into an old rural gas station took me back 40 years to a similar scene. Sense and memory work in funny ways!
Wow. That really is being on the cusp of something, to be in the last class learning typing skills on a typewriter. It's true that covering mistakes was (and still is for me!) quite the task. But it is lovely to use the typewriter for short pieces that don't require perfect typing skills. I tend to take great glee in crossing out and correcting in pen in the letters and journal entries I make. Smell is actually the sense that is most linked to memory, apparently. So it doesn't surprise me at all that stepping into that old gas station sparked a remembered scene. But yes, memory is very funny!
Always on the cusp. I tend to find myself in things right after the peak, as things shift, I guess that checks being born on the solstice too. Sometimes I feel like I am just a bit too late to the party... I think most places had probably moved onto computers fully at the time I was typing, I think it was 1995, but Bama is always about 20 years behind the rest of the country.
That's very interesting that being born on the solstice has echoed into other aspects of your life. There are lots of people in the UK WANTING to live somewhere that is 20 years behind the rest of the country. haha. Scotland is always seen as quite desirable because the prices and community togetherness are seen as more like they were 20 years ago. As a VERY elder millenial I have always felt trapped between two worlds and I wasn't even born on a solstice. But I'm so grateful for my overly-analogue upbringing.
I at least like to blame the sun... but it is probably just being born in 80, as a baby X or elder millenial, in that inbetween, or Xennial as they have dubbed it. Makes sense Scotland also has that vibe, as most of the South was settled by them, as they call them Scotch-Irish here or Ulster Scots, and many of my folks were from there too, mostly arriving in the 1600s and 1700s. I feel very attracted to Scotland and will be visiting in September and October, exploring old family haunts and wandering througout the UK and northern Europe for a bit. Looking forward to the journey!
It seems like so long ago hearing the rattling of a typewriter. I was in the last class in high school to learn typing on a typewriter, before it all going to a computer screen. It made for covering up mistakes quite the process. Maybe getting back to the racket would be worth it.
I think smells take me back more than sounds, as recently stepping into an old rural gas station took me back 40 years to a similar scene. Sense and memory work in funny ways!
Wow. That really is being on the cusp of something, to be in the last class learning typing skills on a typewriter. It's true that covering mistakes was (and still is for me!) quite the task. But it is lovely to use the typewriter for short pieces that don't require perfect typing skills. I tend to take great glee in crossing out and correcting in pen in the letters and journal entries I make. Smell is actually the sense that is most linked to memory, apparently. So it doesn't surprise me at all that stepping into that old gas station sparked a remembered scene. But yes, memory is very funny!
Always on the cusp. I tend to find myself in things right after the peak, as things shift, I guess that checks being born on the solstice too. Sometimes I feel like I am just a bit too late to the party... I think most places had probably moved onto computers fully at the time I was typing, I think it was 1995, but Bama is always about 20 years behind the rest of the country.
That's very interesting that being born on the solstice has echoed into other aspects of your life. There are lots of people in the UK WANTING to live somewhere that is 20 years behind the rest of the country. haha. Scotland is always seen as quite desirable because the prices and community togetherness are seen as more like they were 20 years ago. As a VERY elder millenial I have always felt trapped between two worlds and I wasn't even born on a solstice. But I'm so grateful for my overly-analogue upbringing.
I at least like to blame the sun... but it is probably just being born in 80, as a baby X or elder millenial, in that inbetween, or Xennial as they have dubbed it. Makes sense Scotland also has that vibe, as most of the South was settled by them, as they call them Scotch-Irish here or Ulster Scots, and many of my folks were from there too, mostly arriving in the 1600s and 1700s. I feel very attracted to Scotland and will be visiting in September and October, exploring old family haunts and wandering througout the UK and northern Europe for a bit. Looking forward to the journey!