What Is Life? A Quote By Eagle Chief (Pawnee)

I like any works done by Native North American Peoples.  This quote reads:  "What is life?  It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  It is a breath of a buffalo in wintertime.  It is the little shadow which runs in the grass and loses itself in sunset".  Like so many things that I post on my blog I found this quote while looking for something else.  I find the computer more amazing all the time.  Or perhaps I am doing more random research than ever before.

When I first started using the computer, about 10 years ago, I knew very little about it.  The first thing I ever did on a computer was play a couple of games.  I highly recommend this method of learning.  It got me past my fear of the machine.  I was fortunate that I had a 15 year old grandson living with me at that ime, I also had a secretary who seemed, at least to me, to know everything about computers.  I was in the stock market at that time and at least twice a day I would ask her to check a certain stock I was following at that time.  After about two weeks of doing this she said " I bet you could do this yourself, I will watch you and tell you what to do next."  Probably most peoples first interaction with a computer is not the stock market.  I remember how wonderful I felt when I was able to check my own stock.  What an accomplishment that was for me.  As I said I also had a 15 year old grandson living with me at that time.  At 15 hardly anything intimidates us, well maybe girls, if we are a 15 year old boy.  Anyway Rusty Roy showed me how to E Mail.  We made a real mess of that computer and I had more service calls than most people, but he helped me.  I really enjoyed my year with my grandson; now I am getting to experience another 15 year old grandson.  I am enjoying this experience as much as I did the first one.  I wish conditions had been different when I had Rusty Roy with me; Paul, my fiance, was sick at that time, in fact he was dying and it took away from the enjoyment of my grandson.  But I remember that year and I remember the time with my grandson fondly.

I have no idea how I got from Eagle Chief to Rusty Roy and it doesn't matter.  That is the great thing about having your blog, it can go in any direction that you decide.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011.............10:56p.m.