Memories, Precious? YES and NO!

  Memorable car of the day:

 I remember when these cars were common on the road, these are 1950 Packards.

        

For today:

The pastor in a discussion group with old folks when someone suggested, playing a word game. Someone will say a word and the rest will come up with a hymns or song that fits. It started:

SKY  ……. Heavenly Sunshine

Prayer…..  In the Garden.

It went on for a few more and an old gent in the back said;

SEX… It all got quiet,,,,, And Granny Lloyd said quietly…

“PRECIOUS MEMORIES.”

Go ahead smile!

Today as I read blogs. I enjoyed your thoughts and ideas. I read about family memories on Woody and Diana’s blogs.  SWEET and bitter sweet memories.

I have known some very good, intelligent hard working people who were attacked by the dreaded illness, Alzheimer’s! Kenneth C whom I admired and was a hero of mine did not know me the last time I saw him.  His daughter said she had walked thru his living room and he said to someone there, ‘She acts like she knows me.’

Mozelle, a SIL said when I asked her how she was doing she smiled saying, “They tell me some days I’m here and some days I am not. Right now I’m here.” She finally lost her memory completely.

(When I first saw this picture above, it hit me like a ton of bricks)

Sister Shirley was cognizant until she died, but she knew she had a problem, we heard this until she passed, “I am losing my memory and it is worrying me to DEATH!”

Someone who KNEW you but doesn’t NOW, seems to have a blank look. It is hard to explain.  I have to admit during my life time I have wished I had no memory i.e.  When terrible memories keep you awake, etc.  The wish doesn’t last long, because there are good ones you NEVER want to forget.

As I get older I am losing words and some events. Sherry will say, oh you remember that, we did this or that last week. Everyone tells me it is normal.

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An old joke: “George, I think it is so sweet you are always calling your wife lover, sweetheart and darling.”

“I hope she thinks so because I can’t remember her name!”

 

Have you ever thought what it would be like to have NO PAST!  Some ‘LOST’ people settle with going thru a routine, but others wonder and brood, because of NOT KNOWING!

So if you really need something to appreciate and be thankful for, just THINK back when you were a little cowboy or cowgirl. When you were a, princess, ballet dancer or a train engineer. REMEMBER!

 

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