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Me Musing .
. . about
Family Remembrances and Stories . . .
The
stories people tell
have a way of taking care of them . . .
in some way . . .
soothing them . . .
helping them to see more clearly.
If
stories come to you . . .
care for them
and
learn to give them away
where they are needed . . .
for they
help to weave
the fabric called 'Life'!
While
working on the genealogy part of the website and having trouble
getting it to link between that site and this one, I was thinking
about the metaphor of that.
So
often we have trouble 'linking' events . . . many we just discard
as seemingly meaningless 'happenings' during the days of our lives.
However, taking the time to look below the surface, we may find
'the pearl' in it all and that 'pearl' just may be the 'link' that,
once found,
keeps us from endless creating of different acts of the same 'main
play'.
That
was sort of a long sentence/thought . . . so here it is more simply
put . . . my 'aha!' about
homesickness that I shared on another page:
A
noted event . . .
Summer of 1963 between Junior and Senior year at Hilliard High School
. . . traveling to Thessaloniki, Greece as an American Field Service
(AFS) Exchange Student. To that point, I had only been as far away
as summer Church Camp (maybe 2 hours from home). It was quite frightening
to board a ship and see the Statue of Liberty fade from view that
day. At that point I fully understood what that thing called 'homesickness'
was that Daddy suffered from when he visited California in 1940
and was offered a job at Walt Disney Studios, but got soooooooo
homesick, he declined what probably would have been a life-changing
experience and returned to his beloved Ohio.
I
was also thinking about how I could 'make lemonade' out of the 'lemon'
webpages I had been unsuccessfully attempting to link! And it was
during that frustration that I realized I didn't just want pages
and pages of names and facts.
To
me, it is what happens during
intermission that is oft'
times much more exciting than the show you paid to see!
I
had already typed information under photos in the genealogy program
and it got me to thinking about all this and how much more fun it
is to 'catch the essence of
something' from a photo or a vignette than to just
read textbook-style information.
Sooooooooo
. . . here are some of my Early
Days on the Farm remembrances. (Click on that
link to travel back to the farm!)
Until
soon,
Che'usa
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