ajr67
I wish I had a magic wand, to make all the things on life's to-do list start disappearing in reasonable order. Too many things are backing up and going undone, as time accelerates and reminds me of all that's left to do. Give me a magic wand.
I set my alarm in December 1980, and as I drifted off to sleep, the news came on with word that John Lennon had been shot. I was 13. I think of that night often.
my son's best friend disappeared several months ago. they found his body a few months after that. i'm pretty sure it was suicide, but no one ever came out and said so, and I wonder why. i suppose it was to protect the kids and deter copy-cats. but it makes me wonder if it was really a good idea.
I learned how to use a darkroom in 1987. It seems like yesterday, but when I tell my kids, it sounds like a lot longer. I can't believe there are no darkrooms any more. I loved the magic, the not knowing. Digital just doesn't provide that. A shame.
I like grape jelly but I haven't eaten it in years. I used to have it with peanut butter in sandwiches. I wonder why we leave behind things we like, never to return to them. It would be easy to go and buy grape jelly, yet I don't. Perhaps you can't go back.
Lean is what I needed to be, after so many years under so many layers of comfort, of denial, of fat. Getting lean was not easy; it took a lot of walking and thinking and throwing out of things, but it was worth it. Lean is what I needed to be, and what I am.
I dropped out of high school when I was almost finished. It just wasn't my thing, but one teacher pulled me aside and quietly told me, though he wasn't supposed to, that I was doing a good thing and he had faith in me. I think about him a lot, because he was right. I've done well.
you can't choose your relatives, or so the saying goes. you can, however, choose how to view them, how to react to the many things they say and do, some of them quite dumb, or how not to react. you can also choose how much baggage from them you wish to carry. the less the better.