inthisdayofage

Today I was reading a book about Joseph Smith. This got me thinking about how things were in their day. I was reading a chapter about his grandpa and how he served the country and went to war here in the United States with Indians and what not. Then it stated that he met a young woman and they soon married. I wonder what I would have been like in that century. Then this got me thinking about Emily Dickinson the poet and how she felt so alone in her time. I’m not really a poetic person or sit there and read poems but I do know that a lot of her poetry is about her loneliness. She sat at the desk in her room and just wrote poems all day. What kind of life is that? She didn’t become famous for her poetry until after she died when her sister found all her poems written on scraps of paper. So I was just curious to what I would have been like. I was thinking our lives can’t be too much different? I mean in past centuries there hasn’t been all the technology that has been recently developed to make our lives easier. Would I have been like Emily Dickinson? Sitting in my room writing my blogs on the computer instead of scraps of paper. hahaha Probably not, but who knows. Anyway this blog is just random thoughts that popped up into my head when I was reading about Joseph Smiths grandfather.