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Memory Remix: #19 - Alone Again, Naturally - Part I
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010. 19 - Alone Again, Naturally - Part I. Two time periods, very early 70’s, perhaps 1971, and then a few years later. Two separate attempts to make my break for freedom, forceful acts of will in honor of that long-standing tradition: The child who runs away from home to escape what he perceives as the unbearable daily torture of parents who just don’t understand. The first little adventure went something like this…. I don’t know what it was. The only tenuous memory that is slightl...
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Memory Remix: April 2009
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Saturday, April 25, 2009. 1 - Message in a Bottle. Trigger: Clicking on high school classmate Sherry D's profile in Facebook. The coach is entertaining a group of jocks with some sports story, happened a lot, so the non-jocks are having a sidebar discussion. Topic turns to music, and somebody mentions this new thing coming out called "cassettes" that might one day replace 8-tracks and vinyl. There is laughter, how can this happen? Then Sherry states in no uncertain terms that "Cassettes rock! And I don't...
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Memory Remix: June 2009
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Friday, June 19, 2009. 4 - Sixteen Candles. Trigger: Reviewing the previous post. 1981 again. This time, it's the day OF my 16th birthday. I don't have my official driver's license yet, but I'm going to take the test after school. The excitement is pulsing through my body. So with the mathematics involved in that arrangement, I only actually got to drive 3 times. The first time, it was me and two of the biggest jocks on campus. So they talked shop with the coach, and I was basically on my own....The t...
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Memory Remix: July 2009
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Thursday, July 2, 2009. 5 - Sunglasses At Night. Trigger: Random memory while searching for old friends on Facebook. We were out of high school, that much is certain, with all of us off to our various colleges doing whatever. But the exact timing and date is fuzzy, not sure why. Seems like it might have been summer between freshman and sophomore college years, but just guessing. So we were at ground zero for our memories of both the high school and the town. And I happen to glance over and see that one o...
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Memory Remix: August 2010
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Sunday, August 8, 2010. 23 - When the Saints Come Marching In, Part 1. And I wasn’t really troubled about going to “school” in the summer, an activity that most of my friends would rather die than do. I was a rather scholarly child, much to the befuddlement and wonder of most of my older relatives, as they had simply endured the 12-year learning process and then proceeded directly to the making of babies. These people were some of the most disrespectful, intolerant, downright mean little urchins to ever ...
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Memory Remix: #20 - Alone Again, Naturally - Part II
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010. 20 - Alone Again, Naturally - Part II. Continued from Previous Post:. This was devastating to my previous perception of my place in society, as well as my overall world view of how things worked. I clearly had missed a memo or two somewhere. It was time for me to hit the books and revisit my exit strategy before formalizing my next field operation. 8221; to “Do NOT go across the street or I will bust your ass! We moved. Packed everything up in the house and headed from u...
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Memory Remix: May 2009
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Sunday, May 10, 2009. 2 - Papa, Can You Hear Me? Trigger: Running across a picture of Becca W online, a good friend from my University of Tulsa days. Barbra Streisand's movie "Yentl" was about to be released. Becca was so excited she was on the verge of squealing. She loved Barbra. Loved music. (She was a Music major, if memory serves, as well as a Business major. That girl was busy.) She nearly killed us on the manic drive to the theater. So, Becca, I did hear you. And thank you. What is a memory? This ...
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Memory Remix: May 2012
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Monday, May 7, 2012. 24 - When the Saints Come Marching In, Part 2. To Read the Previous Entry in This Series. The church bus sat there at the end of the gravel driveway, the split doors spread wide and waiting for us to climb the three steps up into the inner madness of the Jesus transport. My sister gave me a look (“Why do you always. Have to do really dumb-ass things that confirm your geekiness in front of my. There was not such a seat to be found. Then the singing began. I tried to ignore it initiall...
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Memory Remix: August 2009
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Thursday, August 13, 2009. 6 - Boys of Summer. Trigger: Kids playing with a garden hose down the street, in this gawd awful Texas heat. In the 70's, my mom and stepdad were best friends with a couple that somehow managed to get ownership of this big chunk of land east of Broken Arrow, OK. I know those folks didn't have a lot of money, so how they pulled it off was a big mystery. (This parcel of land is located on the same road I babbled about in Post #3). Somebody wrangled a paddle boat from somewhere, a...
