Quality!

 

Quality-lament!?

 

Yeah! Okay! I am “Old-fashioned”!---Reckon-so!...Sure-enough!

 

Tradition!---You-bet-your-convictions!...Faith! Family! Freedom!

 

If my frustration-shows---Well!...that might make me a “good”-writer!?

 

Our modern (God-forbid) society---has devolved…into this putrid-culture!

 

Who is ever at-fault?---Nobody!...”He’s-a-good-boy!” Hmm!

 

“I’m-sorry!” “Pardon-me!” My-fault!” “Modern”-Banished!

Well!---We (society)…just can’t have anyone “feel”-bad!? Huh!

 

When I was a kid, we  (society) had “3”-TV stations (black & white)

with “Great”-programming from 7 am to 10 pm. We enjoyed “moral”-

movies, “funny-entertaining” comedies, news, sports, weather. Mom

cooked and kept an “immaculate”-household, washed and (ironed) all

our clothes, helped me mow the lawn, washed the car; Dad worked

every-day, honored his family, promoted-education, religion, values

and virtues. He disciplined me when (often) I need it; I tasted the bite

of his “stinging”-leather belt (a few-times---he didn’t always catch me!).

(Note: I might have turned out better if he had been a bit more vigilant!)

 

We learned to work, to appreciate the value of knowing how to work, to

Honor-Truth! To be respectful of our elders, to cherish my sacred-mantra:

Faith! Family! Freedom! To “play”-hard! Live & enjoy-Life! To-Love!

 

Our meager-material items, paid for with hard-earned money saved through

the-sacrifice of saving pennies over long-periods of time, lasted years.

We supplemented our diets with bounty from vegetable-gardens, fishing and

hunting, picking-fruits, gathering pecans. Never missed a delicious-meal!

 

I had one ball-glove “Santa Claus” brought a proud 5-year old; seven-years

later, I saved $3.00 from mowing lawns and bought a brand-new Rawlings!

(I still have that treasure which Lovely-Lady Candice enshrined in a shadow-box!)

 

We took care of “what” we had; treasured each-measure; Loved-with-respect!

Quality! Was as natural as-breathing! Value!=Virtue!=Quality! Hmm!

 

We (society) had very-little by-way of material-value---but…we had it-ALL!

Modern-man has it-ALL (in storage-lockers)---but…has NOTHING-of-Quality!

84 TV-stations! Absent-entertainment! No-VALUE! No-VIRTUE! No-WORTH!

 

Personally!---I miss the Quality-of-the-good-ole-days!...Amen!