"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

Advice For Information - You probably won't do this either, but the thought struck me the other day that we are missing an important source of information. I remember walking around the farm and sitting with my father in the living room and him talking for hours about all the things he had done and experienced. I think I was the only one that would listen. He is gone now.

My Mom lived alone and when I would visit, she often recounted her years gone by as well. In her final days in the hospital and in a nursing home, she talked to me about things I knew she didn't with any other. Things that were important in her life. She is gone now.

And my wife, who talked about her early years when I wasn't part of her life. And then our life together where she, as most women can, remembered every little detail about us and our three boys. She is also gone now.

As I look at pictures, and at times try to put things together, so future generations may have some of those interesting tid-bits of information as part of their historic beginning, I have failed. There is much of it I can't remember, or at least not remember in the correct detail. I wish I had somehow recorded some of those conversations and events as they happened, or at the very least as they were retold. For they are gone now.

My advice is if you still have parents, spouses and others in your life, pay attention to those little conversations as they are told. Record some of them, or mark them down somehow. If you don't, you will be the same as me - trying to remember, what is gone now...

-=One Day At A Time=-

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