Wednesday, December 30, 2009

A Matter of Perspective


This is my grandfather, Carl Copper, born in 1893.  The photo was taken in Elwood, Pennsylvania in 1939.  I look at this photo and I can see my grandfather's entire life.  On the surface there is the struggle and hardship, but underneath there is much more - resilience, triumph and many more facets of a long, hard life.

To put things in perspective:

  • January 7th, 2007 - Apple announces the iPhone
  • November, 1987 - Microsoft introduces the first version of Windows
  • November 9th, 1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • August 6th, 1945 - Nuclear Bomb "Little Boy" is dropped on Hiroshima
  • January 15th, 1929 - Martin Luther King is born
  • June 28th, 1919 - Treaty of Versailles is signed ending The Great War.
  • 1894 - Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is published
It just makes me pause for a moment.

"Honor the Past, Look to the Future and Live in the Present."

-Me

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