As is my habit I tend to read blogs and news articles during the early morning hours. Recently, I have been introduced to some bloggers from my home town that has broken me of the habit of reading the headlines of the New York TImes. Now I go to the glimpses of moments in time from other bloggers such as myself. Often times these blogs evoke happy and sad moments. The happy memories make you feel good and the sad memories are bad because it usually involves pain and suffering. The latter is unavoidable, using a blog to impart a feeling of loss or suffering is good therapy for the healthy contributor of the blog. It is also good therapy for this reader. At least that is my story and I am sticking to it.
Having met recently with a classmate I have been reticent to post on the meeting because of my inability to post pictures of the lunch date. My wife is at CES(Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas this week. She is the webmaster in this blogger’s world so that is not going to happen until she gets back from Vegas, but I am looking forward to posting the meeting and how much it meant to me to have been able to spend time with such a great couple. I will save the gushing for the real post but suffice to say “ecstatic” only touches the tip of the bountiful harvest of feelings gleaned from the long awaited meeting.
But getting back to reading old blogs…The memories that these recent blog sites bring out in me when I am perusing their archives gives me fodder for future posts. I certainly am not going to write about the early years since not much was said about those times. Grandpa Erickson died before I was born and Grandpa Hage died when I was approaching 10 years of age. No memories of them …really…? Lots of Aunt and Uncle memories. I am thankful. Cousins on both side of the tree are in abundance. Farm life…oh yes!! Looking back it was wonderful and I lived through it. How …? Lucky would be the first thing to come to mind. Blessed is the last thing…I know!!!
I am slowly working towards some subjects that are of interest to me to add to my post count. There are important people in my life that have made a difference to me. None of the important people would be considered famous but that does not mean that they are of no less import. I met a Supreme Court Justice in Juneau in 1973. He was famous in Alaska. Pretty good athlete but was on the way down hill physically. You know the type… the body’s spirit was more than willing but the body’s engine had lost a lot of compression and could not get a head of steam. Even though he made court rulings and made an effect on the life of Alaskans he really had no effect on me. Hmmm ..Let’s see…? slow, short and old? I am now of that same condition albeit not short… he still has no effect on me other than to marvel that he was still “able” at his age.
So… maybe my life was not full of famous people…. do I consider it bad? No! Would I like to hang around Tiger Woods these days? He famous these days. Not a chance!! He didn’t do anything that I didn’t do or attempt to do. I cheated on my first wife. I spent twenty years hating myself.(so will Tiger!) I made phone calls to women.!? I stayed out late and partied!! But I did not have children and I did not have any money. Which, in retrospect, is probably why I did not do worse things. It always cost more money than I had. Mitch Album wrote a book about his meeting with a man who got old and died. He spoke of the way that this man had lived his life and his involvement with that man. The story brings out the good things in this not so famous man’s life. That is what reading blogs is about for me. Bringing out the good things on the not so famous. I have lived a life that was full of bad things and I should have known better. I had a lot of not so famous people to use as a guide. Even though I choose a life that may have been less than stellar I had wonderful not so famous guides with which I could have used to guide me along the way. It is with these memories that I will, in future posts, start writing about the guides in my life. All of them are not famous but some of them may be infamous. Time will tell, when I write(read) them the “riot act”, on my blog. HA!
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