Still North Group

My grandparents were business owners. They owned and operated a small company that made custom wrenches for other small businesses. Work was done "out back at the shop" where the wrenches were stamped and boxed. And work was done up at the house where my Grandma answered the phone "Onward North!" and did the bookkeeping. Along with my great-grandparents, they had moved North to Michigan - hence the name "Onward North!" Eye-level view of a serene landscape with a winding path

Recently I learned a startling fact: the word "priorities" didn't exist until the Industrial Revolution. There was no plural form of the word because how could you have more than one "priority?" By definition we could only have one. And yet, the society growing around Capitalism had to maximize efficiency and had to convince its workforce to fall in line. Eye-level view of a lake and light house Nowadays, we all have multiple priorities for nearly everything we do! Worse y