That's how my own Scottish grandparents would have described it yesterday as we gathered in a Sacramento park to celebrate the 3rd birthday of Grandson #3.
He's an adorable little tyke, a chatterbox (who used to barely speak a word), and a true character who sees the world through his own unique lens. He uses adult phrases like "Let me get back to you about that," and in that way reminds me of his Mom at this age.
His 16-month-old cousin is quite mobile these days and just starting to talk. She wandered all around the perimeter of the party yesterday, exploring everything in sight. It was hot, very hot, and the kids all had red cheeks from the heat, even with sunscreen.
The gift of being able to get to know your children's children, at my age, while remembering your parents' parents, is truly fabulous. Some 130 years of history with me sitting squarely in the middle of it.
My grandparents were born before cars were invented; now I have grandchildren who were born after the iPhone was invented.
Those two inventions are actually comparable achievements -- the iPhone is in the process of remaking the world in much the way the automobile did in the last century.
That's one of the themes in my book, Thirty Startups to Know Now.
I find that elsewhere in the country, many may still underestimate just how profound the transformation of life as we know it is occurring thanks to the emergence of small, powerful digital technologies that can help us do everything we used to do much more quickly and efficiently.
Not that there aren't dark sides to these same technologies, as I often mention. Especially social media like Facebook, search engines that enclose us in the "filter bubble," or apps that distract us when we should be concentrating on something more basic, like driving.
But the upsides promise much more than the down.
All of the world's cumulative knowledge at your fingertips in your pocket.
Nothing any of our granparents could even have imagined.
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