What is Different From Fifty Years Ago

Life changes. It evolves both at the macro level, over generations, and at the micro level within a single lifetime. One of the nicest things about aging is observing the little changes that occur over a lifetime and seeing how those changes create new understandings that becomes the starting point for new generations. This happens in politics, in business and of course in philately. When I started collecting stamps nearly fifty years ago nearly every collector maintained a worldwide collection. And why shouldn