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Your Book is Buried in 100-Year Time Capsule: How Does it Feel?

POUND RIDGE PAST lives on

Bonni Brodnick
3 min readJun 10, 2022
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I am honored, and thrilled that my book, POUND RIDGE PAST, was selected to be included in a time capsule. Whenever I pass the flagpole at the Town House, I can imagine the book in a 5-foot x 3-foot metal box, sealed and buried, waiting one century before its second debut.

What will the world be like in 100 years?

Gina Federico Graphic Design

Will there even be a world? Will Texas have realized that the Heartbeat Bill is an utter travesty? As Libby Mattern writes in her commentary in Medium about this bill, “… women should have the power to choose what happens within their own bodies.” The horror of this rings close to home because my son and daughter-in-law (Libby) found out at 17-weeks, not 6-weeks, that the little girl in her womb (which would have been my first grandchild) had a catastrophic brain abnormality. What would life have been like for everyone?

Will Covid and all other viruses finally be eradicated? Will the citizens, scientists, inventors, academics, delegates, journalists have answered the most urgent question of 2021: How do we adapt and…

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Bonni Brodnick
Bonni Brodnick

Written by Bonni Brodnick

Writer. Creative. Thinker. Humorist. Author of "My Stroke in the Fast Lane" + "Pound Ridge Past." A proud Stroke Survivor. Visit me at bonnibrodnick.com

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