Summer of 69. 

It was quite a summer to remember, if you can.

    We landed on the moon. 

There was Woodstock.  Three days of fun and music.

We were knee deep in Vietnam with 500,000 soldiers. We had a draft going to supply the army.  My draft number was 235.  Did you have one?

Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew were in the White House.

A first class stamp was $.06 cents

 

It was quite a summer, when we look back 40 years later from a historical perspective.  And we have covered a lot of ground, and many things have happened since. 

I think the most interesting thing though is that if you look back forty years and use yourself as your telescope.  Think of all the things you have experienced in the last forty years, if possible.  All your successes, all your failures.  All the things you learned and all the things you were able to un learn. 

A forty year slice of human history can look like a heaping super sized dessert helping, but it really is not. 

 

And why aren’t we living on the moon 40 years later? 

We are knee deep in another war, that is oddingly remote and unreported by the media.

There is no draft right now, so our soldiers pull multiple tours of duty.

We have our first black President and stamps are now$.44 cents.

External change never ends.  Make sure your internal changes keep pace.  We need to move on to a new frontier for our kids and their kids.  The population has almost doubled since that summer of 1969.  Wealth has become more centralized, not more wide spread, and the number of people starving has increased geometrically.

 

Let’s keep our eye on where we are really going, and not get bogged down in how we get there.

And as the late Walter Cronkite used to say every evening as he signed off,,,and that’s the way it is