Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 14, 2015
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Transcript:
Arlo says, "I hate to think of moving! All the closets are packed!" Arlo says, "The garage is crammed full!" Arlo says, "And the attic!" Janis says, "We're buried in stuff!" Arlo says, "An apt metaphor as ever there was!"
I was born in 1952. Memories of the Great Depression and the deprivations of WWII were very real and raw……EVERY THING you can imagine was more than scarce..You couldn’t buy a bucket…..It just wasn’t there!.. People died of want. My parents lived through that. They saved everything just in case, and I can’t blame them….But to this day I have a hard time throwing away a margarine container….Friends my age are the same way, we learned from our parents…….As a history teacher, I find kind of funny that something that happened over eighty years ago is still influencing my life….