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I'll ALWAYS have my mom hanging around my NECK! Just not the same way!.
Kristles,
I'm neither CATHOLIC nor JEWISH! Why then, am I carrying around a big boatload of undeserved, unearned, guilt? OKAY, Right!
THANKS MOM! I have two brothers, and neither of 'em is named RAYMOND! Now that I think about it, maybe Mom will only just be "monkeyin' around," riding on my BACK.........FOREVER!!!!
Macabre imagery...........That whole metallic neck-bonelace thing, though. Can I sentence my son to have to wear ME around his neck, in return for a modest inheritance?
I wonder what I did to deserve....................?
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on August 1, 2010 at 2:17 PM
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Guy
Great post and Wow! You must have great genes.......personally, I'm seeing how much metal I can collect for my daughter to have as mementos when she cremates me! So far she has a plate on my arm, wire around my sternum, and two titanium knees, not to mention all the dental crap....she's already started designing the necklace she's going to make out of all of it so she'll always have me around her neck. But, she'll never need that as a reminder of my love, we never part or even end a phone conversation without saying it....and, we're not just sayin' it!
posted by
Krisles
on August 1, 2010 at 9:49 AM
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Tick,Tock
Your blog was very, very well said..and I agree that the saddest thing would be to leave this world without telling those you love how much they mean to you./I turned 62 last Jan, and I have not been blessed with your good health and one takes it for granted when they have it..I still want to live as long as allowed to see the ones I love grow up/LBJ
posted by
MsJudy
on July 31, 2010 at 7:34 PM
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Wow! Your response to the comments is a post in itself! Well written, both blog & response, Northsage. And if, as you say, we don't get to look back and see the f-ups we did during our lifetime, I'd be just as happy, LOL! Personally, I feel I have been fortunate this time around, and even if I didn't accomplish anything brilliant, I did help out now and then. No regrets.
posted by
adnohr
on July 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM
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Re: Northsage45
Taps, Kabu, & Wiley,
Comments on my work like these, are deeply appreciated, even though I'm going to have to go out and buy a bigger hat, now. Funny isn't it, that thinking about one's own mortality, can turn anyone philosophical?
One thing that gives me tight jaws, is when I see people go through life, sleep-walking, so to speak, unappreciative of just how fortunate we all are to have even been born, let alone be self-aware, adults, able to live life as fully as is possible given our subjective limitations and abilities. I can think of several sleep-walkers I've met or raised, in my lifetime, who live as though life has been inflicted upon them, and they have been sentenced to ENDURE it, until it is over.
Our lives are not some kind of a surreal dress rehearsal, this IS the big show! We never get to read the reviews, after our performance is finished, to learn if we performed well, in our hour of prancing about, on stage. We each have to decide for ourselves if we "done good," or if we bungled our one and only chance.
Many of those we run into during our lives, haven't been given the same advantages that we have, some have been born into environments that it takes real intestional fortitude, to awaken each morning and face another day, but they still wish to continue on. Some are blinded figuratively or actually, some are crippled, figuratively or factually, but they never whine about it.
To see the gifts of awareness and thought, the endless possibilities squandered or thrown away like a carelessly broken toy, makes one wonder how out of the BILLIONS of sperm cells, swimming just as fast as was possible, fighting literally for LIFE itself, how it was that the best and the fastest of them, Olympians all, produced such voluntary failures. There are things that nobody will ever be able to understand, and the throngs who are constitutionally unfit to live in this awful, difficult, wonderful world, are among them.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on July 31, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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Northsage45
A great blog junior. Hey, what the heck I'm in my 75th year with a not so hot ticker but I know I am going to live to 100 (because of Kabu in my life,) and just to be a pain in the ass to my kids. Matter of fact when I'm broke at 80 I plan on suing all 9 of them for support. That joy will keep me alive for Kabu even longer maybe That was a great post and we appreciate you old chap.
posted by
WileyJohn
on July 30, 2010 at 5:35 PM
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I loved this blog and it is one of those great blogs that can be posted
each year.
I do believe (because I can count on my fingers...62 plus 3) that we are the same vintage...such a good year that was the war over an' all....
I don't mind dying alone but I would hate to be found months later...but I won't care because I will have gone on.......as for regrets yes..they are there ....and some relationships are beyond me to fix .....but I got out and followed my heart and am happier than ever in my life. I just hope that you are too.
posted by
Kabu
on July 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM
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Very well thought out and written.
Unlike you, although I love life, I hope to slip softly and easily into that last night. I won't even mind dying alone if that happens. But it is nice to have loved and to know love is with you.
posted by
TAPS.
on July 30, 2010 at 7:32 AM
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