I love Lincoln’s wit, too. Two quick favorites: Lincoln’s walking on one of the era’s dirt roads and a wagon approaches, which he hails. He asks the driver, “would you mind taking my jacket into town?” “I’d be happy to,” the driver answered, “but how will I get it back to you?” “No problem,” Lincoln replied; “I’ll be in it.”

The other comment of his I enjoy is, “It’s the not the years in the life, it’s the life in the years.”

Let us all live fully in ‘09.

You covered the car well but extending this further… Even staying indoors is easier as most of us don’t need to chop down trees and cleanup/stroke the fire to keep warm. Gathering water, cooking, going to the bathroom are things all so much simpler in our day. We stay in touch with others via phones and internet. We even have more entertainment than just reading a book too (although that still ranks high in entertainment value).

So if someone like Abe were here today, I’m sure he would wonder how a car could be powered by itself without a horse pushing or pulling it. Simply by pulling up to nozzle and putting in some semiclear liquid into the side of the buggy… then paying a year or more worth of wages to someone for the privilage….

ah… time for my next sip of bottled water.