Hot and hazy day that has me lazy.... The last thing I want to do is type this up tonight... had lots of thoughts and "good ideas" run through my head today.... but none of them have really stuck. Scary to think that people are saying it is too hot on April 26th... I am Sure Al Gore is jumping up and down... see I was right.... Sure Tipper is just turning up the AC to 11... ( get that reference and you get a special mention)... Sunday day of rest... I'm thinking we need to listen to that bible of ours more... at least on Sundays... I think we do more on Sunday than any other day... Instead of rest it is nonstop, bouncing like a pinball from thing to thing... compound that with a weekend like we had and it seems like the days lasted 26 hours... more time to cram more stuff into an already busy life.. On the seventh day he rested... I'm sure the lawn that was created around day three or four was already growing... but Sunday was rest... not mow, clip, dig or haul day... not scrap, paint, hang, move.. move again day...
Kept going back today to my thought last night about Oral history... legacy... and even further back about memories... Had this wild thought... what was my real first memory or was it really a story told to me that I have made my first memory... Thinking real hard and all that pops in to my head is the Dam Parrot... but I know I was older than...I'll keep thinking and update if I find something older in the mush that is my gray matter ... because I know there has to be something earlier... The one I know is not a memory but a story... memorialized by me over the years because of the numerous times I have heard it... repeated.. again... and again... but none the less I felt I was there... is Big Brother(3), missing Ruby getting shot... there is no-way in the world I could remember that.. but it is as real today as it was in November of 63... As I move further away from childhood, the good and bad blur together... with the good winning out most of the time... there are blocks of time or events that remain etched in stone, but I would venture to guess even those when looked at across the family are viewed or recalled differently... Thoughts like these are why I am doing this now... Even if I stop in 21 days... I think I have a little snapshot of my life that I can share with Dot.. something she can look back on and feel as if she was there in person and not just in anticipation... She will know the impact she had on Big Sis, Little Guy, Toots and myself... without these few blogs... these days leading up will soon be forgotten replaced by new first and our reactions to them...
Bringing me to... 21 days... So I was thinking, is it really 21 days or 20... see most read this the next day... so am I a day behind... on the 17th... it will be one day... my blog that night will be stating or documenting something that happened on the on the 17th... my next and possible last post will be the announcement of Dot's birth... That event is not part of the count down.... it is actually post clock stopping... No I am not trying to leave the count down out.... just trying to figure out if it is set right... Truth is it doesn't matter.. .because in some span of time between this key stroke and the 18th, Dot will be here... no stopping that... even Toots has no control over the drop date... it will happen when it happens but definitely be done by the 18th... unless we have snow...
That's my little snapshot of my life for today... keep those cards and letters coming... I screwed up the name game, left out a ' in some Java script and didn't realize it.. so it disappeared for a few days/hours... not sure... any way it is back... you all have presented a nice array of names... keep guessing...
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I found this that might explain why you can't recall earlier. I would venture to say that your "Dam Parrot" memory occurred in this time frame.
ReplyDelete"Infantile amnesia refers to the general inability of people to remember specific events from the early years of their lives. On the basis of both free recall studies (What is your earliest memory?) and studies for memories of notable and datable early events (the birth of a sibling, hospitalization) psychologists have concluded that there are very few memories from before the age 3 years. The average age of the earliest memory reported is 31/2, with a small but consistent gender difference indicating that females reported earlier memories. If people are asked to recall episodes from the entire life span the number reported before age 8 falls off sharply in comparison to other periods. This indicates that it is not the age of the memories per se that accounts for their relative paucity, rather it is the life period that they occur within (the earliest years) that is sparsely represented in long term autobiographical memory.
please keep writing. I found your blog by chance and we really love reading it. You made my wife and I feel like part of your family
Thank you