I have been listening to South Carolina-A History. This is a mass publication of South Carolina history. It started all the way back at the time of Columbus discovery of America and ended in 1997. My family all thought me missing a few marbles for listening to such a boring thing! ha ha! At least my little brother got quite irrate about it several times when I was listening to it w/in their hearing. But dispite of all the opposition i was receiving i continued to listen. THis narrative opened my eyes in many ways to the reason SC is the way it is at this point. At one point in time SC was the richest colony/state on the east coast. Pretty much the first 100 years SC was at it's peak. All because the horrible institution of slavery. After the Revolutionary War the economy of SC was still good but nothing like it had been before the War. During the Civil War SC became a poverished state and has been working it's way out of poverty ever since. In fact the whole state continues to have a below average income then the average of the nation in general. This explains a lot of things to me! And i find myself living in a area of the state that has a below average state income! :-)Isn't it a wonder then that i can drive down the road and see houses that look much like they may have in the 50's and 60's....isn't it a wonder then that everybody from Colored to White seems to be scripping all the time....especially in these last few years?! What can we do to help this?
Some times i wonder....why do i even blog? do ppl even read it? but then i wonder am i selfishly wanting ppl to notice? do they have to comment? I rarely comment on other's posts...so why should they comment on mine? I do try to comment all the time! but for some reason since my computer is so slow....the internet anyway...it tells me i'm not allowed to....so even if you don't see a comment from me know that i wanted to! and maybe that's everybody elses problem! the same one i have! their internet's being snotty! ha! ;) I love to read all the blogs i do read and wish like crazy that i could comment! so here a some comments i've thought about recently.... Amy...I loved your Christmas blog! and i know ya'll might get tired of me saying this...but it almost brought tears to my eyes...thinking as how we miss out on that kinda stuff here in South Carolina.....since everybody else...or a bunch of everybody else is way out there! But thanks for the pictures and all...
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in the mean time i will do my part to be a light in the community where i'm placed at this time in my life and hopefully somebody will see some Light thru me....