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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (64935)	3/19/2004 11:14:05 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We have noticed a change in some of the new home designs in the metroplex in the last year or two. The builders are attempting to make them look like they were built 50 years ago. Instead of the closed, formal brick modern look, they are often frame, and are painted warm colors, but most significantly, they have front porches which is not at all usual here. (Edit- I just looked it up and they even call the development "Home Town" and plan to build a Town Hall). My theory is that people have reached such a point of alienation, are so far from home, have these vague yearnings for a time when people actually had roots and knew their neighbors, that they are trying to find it again, but don't understand that it is not something you replace with a new decor. Justin saw our Town Square, the best money could buy. Ammo and I were talking about this- how town squares grew up around the needs of a town; ours boasts Gap, Victoria's Secret,and Starbucks. There is a library in the Town Hall, but it is impossible to park and get to, so I still drive to Grapevine. My sister-in-law lived in one of those towns you are talking about in New Hampshire. They fought Walmart tooth and nail, but I think they finally lost. She has since sold her log cabin and moved (though not because of Walmart) so I am not sure what changes it brought. It all makes me think of the terribly misguided missionaries in Michener's Hawaii. We are so sure we have the answers, that growth and change are the right things. I also just finished reading The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara KInsgsolver, who wrote Prodigal Summer) about an AFrican missionary family which just deepened my own feelings of alienation from much of the human race, so just ignore my moaning. Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. -Ogden Nash-