54 degrees this morning, 46:00 minutes walking
Sounded warm this morning. It really wasn’t near as warm as it sounded, but after I started walking I warmed up fast.
It wasn’t until I became older myself (well, at least an adult able to see one generation grow) that I realized why my parents friends always gushed about “how much we had grown etc”.
It was true was the reason, and even more because it was before people traveled a lot or took a lot of pictures, at least compared to today.
I am just amazed at how fast children grow up, even when I see them fairly often.
I think that is just the nature of life, and I don’t realize how many years have gone by until I see it in children.
It is still a shock to see children I knew as young, now fathers and even grandfathers!
I remember a song years ago “19” and a folk song about how someone who dies young is “always 19” in our memories and doesn’t grow old in our minds.
Not sure why this thought came up, except Eleanor (my sister) texted me and mentioned she was met someone who went to Waldo, Kansas (where we lived for three years). She mentioned that she met someone from Waldo whose older bother had been killed in an accident while driving a tractor.
I’m not sure why I remember it, but I did remember his brother getting killed and the school yearbook was dedicated to him.
I’m not sure why it made since an impression on me, although it may be the first time I had encountered a tragedy like this where I was remotely involved.
Eleanor said the brother (that she met) had moved from Waldo when he was twelve and came back after he retired and bought a number o houses in Waldo, the grocery store and post office. Apparently Waldo had a hold on him as a place.
I think a sense of “place” can have a hold on you, for whatever reason. I remember the area I grew up in and have gone back a few times and am amazed at how little has changed (except everything is so much smaller!), just like other places have changed so much.
A lot happened in my life in Waldo. I had my first job there (cleaning out a septic tank) and I made money mowing lawns. I also made some friends whose names I can still remember. One was killed in a car accident when I was in college and I remember one because he got married and had a baby and I think how old that baby is now!
The warmish weather is nice, it will be tough to go back to cold weather. I remember several years ago, it turned warm in February and never really got cold again. My kind of winter!
I have gotten tons of e-mails I just delete for years. I decided it was time to take some defensive acton, so I have started “unsubscribing” to e-mails I don’t want where I know it is a legitimate e-mail and not spam where they just are trying to confirm your e-mail.
So far I think it has been relatively successful in eliminating some e-mail. I realized i was spending time deleting e-mailI no longer wanted or cared about.
I do wish there was a way of “blocking” e-mail like I used to be able to be able to block specific e-mails with just a click, just like I can block phone numbers.
Anyway, I started this with the idea of about how I noticed time pass in observing how fast children grow.
That’s it for now, Wednesday, January 28, 2015.
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