Black and White

There was a time when everything was "black and white", not just our photographs, but the world around us, and the way people lived their lives. Maybe it's just the way we remember things from 60+ years ago, but I can't remember the world being as crazy as it is today.
There were serious issues back then, as history proves there has always been, but maybe the way people handled it was way more civil than it is today. I find it harder every day to watch the news on TV, or read about it on social media. I wonder if that isn't part of the problem. We are so "connected" to the world around us, and it seems almost all of the news we see is bad.
I come across this old photo from 1956 the other day, which is what started me thinking about the way things used to be. Of course, I was only six years old at the time, but the times were much simpler back then. The photo is of me, along with my cousins and my brother, on Christmas morning. I'm showing off my new cowboy six-shooters, the bad guys would be running for their lives. I just wish the holidays in 2018 could be as trouble free as they were in 1956.

Christmas 1956.