{"id":8862,"date":"2015-11-13T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2015-11-08T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:09:16","slug":"the-fly-over-life-on-this-fantastic-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/the-fly-over-life-on-this-fantastic-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fly Over Life on This Fantastic Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shapeimage_1-414-300x1711.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8864 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shapeimage_1-414-300x1711.png\" alt=\"When I wrote this post I was grateful for fly over country. 5 years later, I'm still grateful and a little bit more so.\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shapeimage_1-414-300x1711.png 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shapeimage_1-414-300x1711-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For those of you who don&#8217;t live in fly over country, this Fantastic Friday post explains what you are missing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You know how jet setters dismiss the land between the east and west coasts as fly-over country? They scoff at what they consider a wasteland of cornfields, a vast expanse where nothing worthwhile happens, nothing of consequence is produced, no one of importance lives. Well, I love living in fly-over country, no matter what the jet setters think of it. But, the past week exposed an unexpected truth.<\/p>\n<p>We live a fly-over life.<\/p>\n<p>A midweek visit to my son and new daughter was void of the hoopla that characterized much of the last two years: no illness, thus no dramatic health cures; no happy announcements, thus no need to plan big celebrations; no crises, thus no anxiety-racked discussions. Instead, in our time together we talked about jobs, exchanged recipes, played with the dog, and went to bed by 9:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Pleasant, but boring.<\/p>\n<p>A perusal of our weekend activities confirms life\u2019s fly-over status. I made cookies for upcoming church events and cleaned some drawers in the kitchen \u2013 without burning a single cookie or pinching myself with kitchen utensils. Hiram reinstalled the sink in the upstairs bathroom without cracking the porcelain or ruining the newly laid tile. We comparison shopped for a new refrigerator, washer, and dryer \u2013 and found what we needed for less than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciated, but boring.<\/p>\n<p>A phone call to our daughter and new son was uneventful. She\u2019s keeping up in school and making progress with her online, custom sewing business; no need for me to swoop in and chair a planning pow wow. He likes his job; no need for encouraging words to buck him up. They\u2019re looking ahead to next year, hunting online for an apartment near the campus they\u2019ve move to next August; no need for parental reminders to think about the future.<\/p>\n<p>Reassuring, but boring.<\/p>\n<p>I live a beyond-the-excitement, happily-ever-after, fly-over existence made possible by the exciting lives of others:<br \/>\nPilgrims<br \/>\nAmerican revolutionaries<br \/>\nhardy pioneers<br \/>\nabolitionists and Civil War soldiers<br \/>\nWWI doughboys<br \/>\nsurvivors of the Great Depression<br \/>\nTom Brokaw\u2019s greatest generation<br \/>\nwar veterans<br \/>\nmy Alaskan homesteader in-laws years<br \/>\nmy courageous and determined parents<\/p>\n<p>Because of them, Hiram I will spend a quiet, fly-over Thanksgiving with our daughter and new son in their tiny, college apartment. We\u2019ll talk about work, exchange recipes, do a few odd jobs, and be in bed by 9:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>I am exceeding grateful for those who made possible this boring, fly-over life. 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