So I read this most fascinating article on CNN yesterday about Edna Parker, the new world's oldest person. Edna was born in 1893. Yep. That's no typo. She's 114 years old.I started thinking about all that Edna has experienced in her life and was overwhelmed trying to grasp it all. When she was born, airplanes were not invented. The telephone was a new-fangled gadget and the country was recovering from the not-that-distant Civil War.
If there ever was a century to be alive, certainly this past one has been filled with arguably the most revolutionary changes to culture and society. Could Edna have ever dreamed of cell phones, nevertheless the Internet when she ventured into her happy marriage in 1911? It made me think about what would be a part of our world 114 years from now if Jesus doesn't come back first. I couldn't even begin to fathom. Any thoughts?
Want to know the even crazier part of the story? The new oldest person in the world is apparently friends with the tallest woman in the world. Don't they make a fun couple of friends?
1 comment:
chris griffin says:
hey leah, i had all of these same thoughts a month ago when my grandmother turned 100 July 15! We had a HUGE family reunion with some facinating pictures of her childhood...digitally scanned into a laptop...shown on a bright projector...music playing through a bose speaker...and the week after the party all of the grandkids had already uploaded their digital pictures to shutterfly.com for a community photo album. pretty cool :-)
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