Category Archives: Reflections

Memories of times gone by.

Goodbye Paul Harvey, I’ll Miss You

It seems like I’ve been listening to Paul Harvey since before I was born as odd as that might sound. The feeling is genuine though and although his death at 90 has already been announced throughout the media I couldn’t help but posting about it here as well. But I won’t bother with his [...]

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The Chestnut Tree-A Very Special Video

Times are frightening enough these days to keep dwelling on Politics so This Week’s Special is all about remembering those warmer times when you felt happy and secure although even those times came with it’s small frights now and then. It’s all too easy to bring those frightening memories to the forefront so for a [...]

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My Very First Love

Yup, there she is…my very first sweetie; a 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass “S”. Of course this isn’t the exact same car; that one is long gone but she looked just like the one above with the small exception of some subtle pin striping I did along the main lines of the body.
My father had given her [...]

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Boomers living through the Technology Boom. Could we do without?

Rhea of the Boomer Chronicles put up a rather thought provoking post about how she’s outlived a lot of computer technology and since we’re both around the same age, I had to sit and ponder about this for a bit. Then I left a rather long comment (who me?) that reflected these pondering’s of mine [...]

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The Road to a Memory

The day was warm and sunny and the woods smelled of high summer. The old mountain road was overgrown with the efforts of the forest to reclaim it’s own but was easily passable nonetheless. My father was slightly ahead of me as we followed the old road to the right into a long straightway that [...]

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Reflections: Learning to Live

Rick C has an excellent and touching post this weekend as he reflects on the past and the journey that has brought him here. I happened to have some extra time this weekend to go visiting and his post reached out and got my undivided attention
For those of us who strive everyday to live [...]

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Reflections To A Time of Learning

A post by Liz Strauss at her blog Letting Me Be… triggered the most amazing response from me (amazing to me that is). I’m modifying my response to her post only a bit to work it into this post. It’s about one of the hardest things in life that you might go through and everyone [...]

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