Comments on: Life in Amazing Times http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/12/life-in-amazing-times/ Learning Nerd. Husband. Dad. Rocker. Cobbler. Coder. Strategist. Visionary. Hugger. Dude. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Palko http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/12/life-in-amazing-times/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 Michael Palko Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:25:15 +0000 http://www.aaronsilvers.com/?p=999#comment-1016 One of your "kin", @briandusablon, shared a link on Twitter that led me here. I certainly echo your sentiments about this amazing time we live in. A few weeks ago, my 8 year old son asked if I had a computer when I was little, and when I said "no", he looked at me as if I were an alien! Technology certainly has made my world smaller, but it has also made it a little louder. I know I have to make conscious decisions to turn down the "volume" at times. There is equal amounts of "amazing-ness" in looking for animal shapes in the clouds, watching slugs slime their way across the porch and seeing the magic in the eyes of both the young and old at this time of year. I posed this question to my Twitter peeps last week: "What would you do if you knew this was your LAST Christmas?" I know my response would be to not let the gloom and doom in the media overwhelm me and not get so stressed out about what I can't afford. Instead I would focus more on surrounding myself with family and friends (old, new and rediscovered) to share stories about the amazing gift of life in this amazing world. One of your “kin”, @briandusablon, shared a link on Twitter that led me here. I certainly echo your sentiments about this amazing time we live in. A few weeks ago, my 8 year old son asked if I had a computer when I was little, and when I said “no”, he looked at me as if I were an alien!

Technology certainly has made my world smaller, but it has also made it a little louder. I know I have to make conscious decisions to turn down the “volume” at times. There is equal amounts of “amazing-ness” in looking for animal shapes in the clouds, watching slugs slime their way across the porch and seeing the magic in the eyes of both the young and old at this time of year.

I posed this question to my Twitter peeps last week: “What would you do if you knew this was your LAST Christmas?” I know my response would be to not let the gloom and doom in the media overwhelm me and not get so stressed out about what I can’t afford. Instead I would focus more on surrounding myself with family and friends (old, new and rediscovered) to share stories about the amazing gift of life in this amazing world.

]]> By: Brian Dusablon http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/12/life-in-amazing-times/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Brian Dusablon Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:47:37 +0000 http://www.aaronsilvers.com/?p=999#comment-1015 This is an excellent post, Aaron. I read it twice. I've been looking for some childhood friends in the same manner, and occasionally stepping aside to see the totally kick ass world we live in is necessary. Sure, there are all kinds of bad things going on as well, but opportunity has never been as good for as many people on the planet as it is right now. Thanks for brightening my day today - I've been in a funk today, and this helped. Off to hang with my wonderful kids for an hour before jumping back into this wonderful technology stuff. Cheers. This is an excellent post, Aaron. I read it twice. I’ve been looking for some childhood friends in the same manner, and occasionally stepping aside to see the totally kick ass world we live in is necessary. Sure, there are all kinds of bad things going on as well, but opportunity has never been as good for as many people on the planet as it is right now.

Thanks for brightening my day today – I’ve been in a funk today, and this helped.

Off to hang with my wonderful kids for an hour before jumping back into this wonderful technology stuff.

Cheers.

]]> By: kreed http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/12/life-in-amazing-times/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 kreed Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:35:44 +0000 http://www.aaronsilvers.com/?p=999#comment-1013 you big softy. But I agree. You have to be an optimist, because to not be is to give up. The technology can easily go either way...but the more we all know and use it, the better off humans will be. We were looking at my 3 year old's computer toy the other day, set up as the keypad on a computer. I couldn't type until I was 16 years old. I haven't thought about looking up my old Pittsburgh buddies from when I was 9 or 10 on Facebook, you've inspired me, so off I go to try to find some of them. you big softy. But I agree. You have to be an optimist, because to not be is to give up. The technology can easily go either way…but the more we all know and use it, the better off humans will be. We were looking at my 3 year old’s computer toy the other day, set up as the keypad on a computer. I couldn’t type until I was 16 years old. I haven’t thought about looking up my old Pittsburgh buddies from when I was 9 or 10 on Facebook, you’ve inspired me, so off I go to try to find some of them.

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