Out of the Wilderness

Colorized video from 1890s

Fascinating to see this footage in color. It’s also sobering to think that every single person in this montage of clips is dead now. In fact, most of them probably died over 30 years ago. I wonder how many voted for Biden a couple weeks ago? 🙂

But seriously, watching this mesmerized me. All these people had lives. They had friends and family. They worked and played. They had pet dogs. They ate dinners, they laughed together. They probably thought society and technology could not ever get any better than it was right then.

Isn’t that crazy? Normal for them was elaborate and layered wardrobes, horses as a common means of transportation, walking around with umbrellas… on sunny days. It’s just amazing to see how this footage being colorized makes me feel something so much different than when it’s just black and white. Does it make you feel any differently? Comment below!

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-Out of the Wilderness

My three favorite words

Sitting on the bleachers, wiping sweat off my forehead. Resting for a few minutes before someone calls out, “Run it back?” These are words I love to hear. You thought the three words were going to be “I love you,” didn’t you? Gosh, you were way off. “Run it back” is a phrase often heard when folks are playing sports and a game just ended. Everyone is getting drinks, maybe chatting, using the restroom if there is one.

It’s time for the next game so whoever’s sticking around jumps in for another round of competition.

When you WANT to play again, hearing this phrase is music to your hears. When you’re hoping to cool down and go home, this phrase is the last thing you want to hear. And inevitably, they are one player short so they need you to step in to play. OK, OK, one more!

-Out of the Wilderness

Writing a blog every day of 2020 – how it’s going – an update – part 2 – again

Some of you know that for 2020 I’ve been posting a blog every single day, sometimes twice a day for Out of the Wilderness. We are now late in November, only weeks to go and it’s been really fun to have this goal, AND be so close to finishing it! Along the way, I’ve written about TV commercials, politics, dating, having dogs, family, and so much more. Some of my favorite writings have been the satire, really just making myself laugh and challenging myself to write in the style of The Onion and Babylon Bee. It’s been a blast.

Below is a screenshot from mid-November for each month’s stats in 2020. I love how WordPress tracks so much data; what can I say, I can be nerdy about numbers sometimes. Since January there has bee a steady incline of views and visitors, a stat that makes me so happy! I just love researching and writing, but to be discovered by more viewers is a good feeling.

December is right around the corner and it’s really anyone’s guess as to what I’ll be writing about. Perhaps it will be more of the same, and I’m perfectly OK with that. Thank you to everyone who has read even one of my posts, and an extra big virtual hug to those who have subscribed and checked back often for posts each day. Y’all are awesome!

-Out of the Wilderness

Jexi movie review – too much cursing :(

I watched this movie on DVD from Netflix (yes, Netflix still does DVDs!) and in a nutshell, it’s the Wal-Mart version of Her. It’s listed as a comedy (Her is not a comedy, mind you) and there definitely was an attempt at making me laugh– somewhere in the onslaught of curse words there was a joke or two… I think. I remember laughing a few times. I wish I would’ve counted all the a-words, s-words, f-words, but I’m not sure I can count that high. I’m not against cussing in movies, but there’s a point when it’s just too much and this movie went beyond that. It’s like they hardly tried to create thoughtful, clever comedy and thought by throwing in an f-bomb it would make something funny.

The plot was OK if you can suspend reality for an hour and a half. I mean, if anyone owned a phone that did the things this one does (“Jexi” is like Siri, Alexa, etc), the phone wouldn’t last a day. But for this movie to work, you absolutely cannot think in terms of reality.

I did learn something though! Kid Cudi is pronounced like, cutt-y, not cute-y. I had no idea.

If you’re desperate for a movie and have already washed your hair, shaved, showered, done the dishes, laundry, finished the work you brought home, mowed the grass, shoveled the driveway, called your parents, napped, clipped your nails, washed your house… then I guess you can take a chance on this one.

If you’ve seen it, what are your thoughts about the movie? Let me know in the comments below!

-Out of the Wilderness