The (supposed) cultural gap

  Most people think that there lies a huge gulf between the amish and modern society.that the amish still use smoke signals(ha ha)and have barn dances and are completely clueless to what goes on beyond their normal life.and that is true to a certain point but not completely.
  Let me give you an illustration.this is a tale of two people;
  The first one was born in rural ohio in a average american home.she grew up,attended high school and had a very normal life.she wound up marrying a young man who was just getting started in the logging business and they had 3 daughters.
  Life was going great until one day she received the worse of worst news.she was diagnosed with MS.now she faced a life of being in a wheelchair and decling health.
  Now while most people would have recoiled and shrunk back into their shell;her inner toughness appeared.i am sure she struggled with it a lot and i cant began to imagine how it would be to come to grips with something like that.
  But everytime i talked to her or saw her she always was in a good mood and you could never get a word ahead of her.and to this day she is one of my "buddies" and a powerful inspiration.
  Now for person number two.she was born and raised on a small amish farm in rural missouri.her days consisted of getting up in the morning and milking cows and helping mow hay and getting into mischief with her many sisters.
  But at age 10 or 11 tragedy struck.her father had cancer.life as she knew it was completely upside down.
  A few short months later her father died and now she and her 6 sisters and one older brother were left to carve a living out of a small farm with nothing but a dairy herd and draft horses.
  Due to just having one brother her and her sisters had to step up and take over their share of the manuel labor.they did so willingly but money was always scarce.
  She grew up and joined the amish church and never got married.today she is a wonderful person to be around and cleans houses for a living.
  Now what do these two strong,independent women who grew up hundreds of miles apart in completely different cultures (and have never met in their lives)have in common?
  Me.i am proud to say they are both my aunts.

    Machets gute