Editing Blog/2026-01-27/Life Is Intense (section)

== A Time Of Glory ==

Either way, this degree of abundance is unbelievable to me. Now that I have a child, I think back to how my parents would remark with incredulity at the fact that electric power and motor vehicles were commonplace. In conscious memory, I have always lived with electricity and there have always been a few motor vehicles around, though not nearly as many as today. I see their existence as natural, not as some kind of modern luxury.

But in the US, I see piped drinking water as amazing. I usually rinse out the kitchen sink at the end of the night to clean it, and so many times I've caught myself staring at the sheer amount of drinkable water I'm flushing down. It's less than a litre, maybe a few hundred millilitres but even that seems like a luxury. I could have had that to drink!

We truly live in an era and place of unbridled prosperity. But Astra will grow up knowing it as normal. I wonder what wonders she will talk to her children about. About what will she say "You won't believe it, but when I was growing up we didn't have..."?


{{#seo:|description=The author shares their experience of getting their knives sharpened at Bernal Cutlery and the surprising delight they found in tasting a thin slice of grape}}

[[Category:Blog]]
[[Category:Reviews]]