If you had a super power what would it be? Mine would be to time travel.
I think there is too much danger is knowing the future, so I’d have to somehow limit myself to only being able to travel to the past. I remember in college always wishing to have a history book that gave me a real glimpse of everyday life, not just an academic and simplistic condensing of history. Thankfully one class gave us that with articles from magazines and journal entries and letters, but still I wanted more.
I’m sure it would be pretty darn smelly to venture back to the days of castle-living and tossing your “chamber pot” contents out the window. But I still want to go back and live decade by decade and experience what life was like so long ago. To walk around Europe like I did just two weeks ago and see walls and structures built by the Romans that have lasted this long with no machinery boggles my mind. And yet we have the internet. Can you imagine the Romans visiting 2018 and checking out a computer or cell phone?
I’m so grateful that these structures have lasted centuries to tell the stories of the past. And I am even more grateful for the invention of the camera to capture the world’s most recent history where it seems so little of what we build and create lasts in physical form. I’m thankful for the photos of my grandparents and great-grandparents and cousins whom I never met, but have part of the story of our family history captured in a split second.
Here are just a few photos from my trip to London, York and Edinburgh from earlier this month! Check back for more.
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