tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736178725964366144.post8946010518367465175..comments2023-05-15T10:54:56.101-05:00Comments on Aunt Di's Experimental Life: Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12608123533919730726noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736178725964366144.post-40272531089986624442012-10-31T10:14:59.408-05:002012-10-31T10:14:59.408-05:00This reminded me of a story from Laura Ingalls Wil...This reminded me of a story from Laura Ingalls Wilder .. from 'Little House on the Prairie' .. she often wrote about feeding the neighbors after they helped with the harvest .. Such community with your neighbors to help, fix, get fed, and feel blessed for helping a neighbor in need without sending them a bill. Mrs. Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06644129213141875138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736178725964366144.post-84145861922163734992012-10-27T10:11:56.986-05:002012-10-27T10:11:56.986-05:00Girl, I am sooo homesick after reading this wonder...Girl, I am sooo homesick after reading this wonderful Post! I miss the red dirt roads that I traveled as a girl. Now, I am surrounded by concrete and black top BUT those red dirt roads beckon me still...for they connect my past and help me look to the future!!! I love you!Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15653217196457292626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736178725964366144.post-5444777958742150732012-10-26T08:39:00.778-05:002012-10-26T08:39:00.778-05:00Christie has some great points...family and commun...Christie has some great points...family and community are so important in our lives and in our independent world today it just "isn't done" much anymore.....I miss it too.Jada's Gigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788954125336097153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7736178725964366144.post-24738434866123775912012-10-24T07:48:28.100-05:002012-10-24T07:48:28.100-05:00Hi Diane!
We grew up in our small communities w...Hi Diane! <br /><br />We grew up in our small communities with neighbors helping each other. I think that is what surprised me so much when we moved away from our small West TN communities. When Caleb was a baby I had something happen to the car one day. The automatic locks would trigger when the door closed sometimes so Caleb and I were out in the snow. I was locked out of my car. The keys to our condo were IN the car. Todd was in meetings in Boston and I was in tears. I called a friend. The first question was, "Do you guys have AAA?" Uh, I had never in my life NEEDED AAA. Neither did any of our neighbors. We depended on each other and became a part of each other's lives...the everyday frustrations (when we were locked out) and the big moments (when there was a tornado that damaged someone's house). That was definitely a moment when I knew the culture had shifted and the expectation of our closest neighbors was that we would have AAA. Actually the friend I called did call her husband. He came and got the car door open for me & Caleb. (He probably had to Google "how to open a locked car door." Ha!) Anyway we became good friends and spent Easter and Mother's Day in her grandparents small New England farmhouse packed to the gills with her aunts, uncles and cousins. We felt so at home! <3 I doubt that we would have shared a holiday meal or become lifelong friends with a AAA rep!!! :) Self-reliance has its place, but I think the huge doses we see in our culture that expects neighbors to have AAA can bring isolation instead of growing relationships. Nothing against AAA, but I love to be a part of neighbors helping neighbors. :)<br />Love you! your cousin ChristieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com