Greetings Gentle Visitors!
As a younger person, I truly loved Star Trek and this month our exhibit is one that has us traveling into the future… the near future, but the future nonetheless. Never fear though, the journey will be delightful! Dear Old Scotty is the best transporter operator this world has ever know and he is eager to beam us to our destination! So get in and we will be whisked off to the year 2028! Let’s see what Kat’s future might hold!
First, a little mood music for this journey…
It is January 2028 and Kat is again spending the month getting to know her OLW: Eventuality. Yes, this is her Eleventh Year with a Word… and this year it all about the idea that the Future is our Eventuality. So this year she is thinking about that eventuality every single day. And she is very cognizant about time… she has lived 3496 weeks thus far and each of them has been such a blessing.
She continues to be a maker… of course. And last year, Steve finally got Kat her very own, stand alone She-Shed – The Maker’s Annex – and it is the perfect making place! There are large, bright windows where she can see her year around cactus gardens…hint, Global Warming really took off in 2024 so Pittsburgh is now the perfect climate for them to grow and flourish!
The Maker’s Annex has the perfect painting space, which is a very good thing because she has been busy painting for an upcoming watercolor show later this year. I know! She is so happily surprised at this as well! All those lessons indeed fueled the spark of her painting.
Kat is, of course, still a knitter and her Gnome Gang has continued to grow over the years. But she now mainly knits BSJ‘s for the local Midwife Labor and Delivery Center. She has organized a group of knitters to join this effort. A wool sweater is a necessary thing in the World of Air Conditioning and, yes, sheep are still producing wool, thank goodness!
The reading of books has not waned either, but now she has a ReadingKindleBot that reads ebooks aloud to her. Sadly, paper books are a thing of the past with trees being so important to helping in the efforts to turn around Global Warming.
Sewing also continues, but has likewise seen such perhaps the most dramatic changes! There is a sewingbot! Agnes is the most wonderful thing. It speeds through those parts of the sewing process that Kat never really loved… the pinning out and cutting. How lovely to just gather up the pieces Agnes has cut and sit down and sew (although, Agnes can sew as well as cut!!) Making a muslin is a thing of the past, Agnes knows exactly what adjustments need to be made for the pattern to fit perfectly. Agnes really is the most incredible thing! Even better is the fact that so many pattern makers have joined the idea of zero-waste making! Agnes is so very good at “puzzling out” a pattern layout to utilize every bit of the fabric!
Agnes and KindleReadingBots are not the only things that have gotten incredible technology boosts! That’s right the combustion engine is a thing of the past, and thanks to some incredible work in congress in 2025… we now have the most amazing mass rapid public transportation – nationwide. That’s right! This eliminated all domestic air travel. The best part? Weekends to visit kids are now a very regular occurrence!
The other really amazing thing has been the renewal of travel to the moon. Weekend trips are very affordable thanks to an incredible grant provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation! And those MoonBnB’s are just so much fun! The views are stunning and the gravity free environment is so nice on creaky old bones! You can jump with joy… literally!
There, of course, remain the not so great things….
- We are on the 4 millionth iteration of COVID, but vaccines remain the gold standard for protection. (thank goodness for those incredible scientists!)
- There are still vast political differences… but the GOP vanished from the political scene just before 2024. In its place is a small, but very vocal, group – The Contrary Party. Yep, they vote NO on everything. Fortunately, the tide of young voters that began in 2023 has not ebbed at all and they are the very best check on those obnoxious naysayers!
- And, as I said… Global Warming is a thing that impacts the daily lives of every person on this planet, but Greta Thunberg is now the leader on combating climate change. She heads the largest group in the UN and under her direction, things are slowly beginning to turn around.
And there you have a glimpse into the Future of Kat! When you are finished looking around, Scotty will be ready to beam you back to 2023. Thank you so much for your visit today!
And, as always, I’d like to thank Kym for inspiring this bit of creativity! We usually look back, but this peek in to the “what might be” has been so much fun!
What a fun and delightful post Kat! You had me laughing out loud at parts (and cringing at others – no more paper books, global warming, still political unrest, etc., etc.). The idea of a cactus garden had me chuckling and I love the idea of your very own She-Shed!
This is really a terrific post, Kat! I do hope you have your own she-shed, watercolor show, ReadingKindleBot, and Agnes. Your take on global warming, covid, and the political scene in 2028 sounds fairly realistic. And that national mass transit is wonderful. I’m going to check back in five years and hope that your amazing and creative look into the future has come true!
Very creative post.
I wonder if there will be an Agnes to scrub floors and toilets. I really could use one of those.
Sadly, Future Me will care as much about scrubbing floors and toilets as Current Me does. LOL Is there not a Roomba that washes floors yet?
I loved this.
ah, I love it! Star Trek is the BEST. I love what you said about covid, gah. I wish for you a watercolor show and a creative space that is just yours alone.
Kat! What a fun, thoughtful, creative, and smart take! (But of course.)
Looking forward to that watercolor show. Future me will be there!
Oh my a positive vision of the future, what a welcome change. Great post.
I love your vision of the future — minus, of course, the global warming! I hope Agnes has some cousins who will do the other less-enjoyable parts of crafting for us, like swatching, weaving in ends, and so forth.
Wonderful post! I bet it was fun to write, as well.
I love your vision of the future, especially the national mass transit. Wishing you the best for the future!
I wish for you a Watercolor Show. What a fun post. I hope the tide of younger voters holds sway in the coming years.
This is great! That’s a lot of progress and change for only 5 years!
THIS. IS. EVERYTHING.
XOXO