Caroline Starr Rose

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We are so overwhelmed with things these days

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We are so overwhelmed with things these days that our lives are all, more or less, cluttered. I believe it is this, rather than a shortness of time, that gives us that feeling of hurry and almost of helplessness. Everyone is hurrying and usually just a little late. Notice the faces of the people who rush past on the streets or on our country roads! They nearly all have a strained, harassed look, and anyone you met will tell you there is no time for anything anymore.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1924

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  1. Linda Jackson says

    May 18, 2018 at 7:58 am

    Wow! I was certain this was 2018. Wonder what Laura would say today!

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    • Caroline says

      May 18, 2018 at 10:29 am

      I know!!

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  2. Serenity Bohon says

    May 18, 2018 at 8:56 am

    Oh goodness. 1924? Maud’s similar statements are always striking to me, as well. It seems so clear we humans are perpetuating our own sense of hurry. My favorite thing and forever goal is to resist it.

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    • Caroline says

      May 18, 2018 at 10:32 am

      I thought exactly the same thing, Serenity. She said something in the journals about technology making everything so much faster or interfering with regular life or something that felt so of the moment.

      I, unfortunately, default to hurry, even when I don’t need to. I don’t like it! Trying to be aware so I can change that.

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