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     Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.15.2.82 |
Hey everyone: "The focus is never definite enough. Most of what we see fades to be forgotten only to return, some say, in those final moments when we race toward death, crossing out of our little band of light into darkness." More over, moreover, at my blogger page: http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/10/eye-to-keyhole.html Thanks for your attention, as always! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.183.106 |
Last week we did a thing we rarely do, and looked through some photo albums. It was so sad, I have to say; we never realise who has dropped out of our lives until it's too late, people who seemed to mean so much to us we thought they'd never be gone. I've wasted all my friends and can see few more on the horizon - it's one of my biggest regrets, and fears. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.50.188 |
I once helped someone clean out the attic of a really old relative of his who'd died after a series of terrible ailments which kept him confined to a wheelchair, and, in the final stage, to his bed. To my amazement I discovered a dusty wooden box with old photos of the old man as a boy. I nearly wept. Incredible that this pitiful husk of a man should have been young once. One of them showed him with his best friend, a big dog. I still have it somewhere. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.95.60 |
Looks like it's just me and you Hubert - not even Thomas himself is interested! Yes, painful stuff indeed. Could you post that picture here? I get more moved by other families stories than my own. I sort of disowned my own family for no reason other than they weren't what I had imagined. I feel sort of floating above my life, not really connected to it properly. It's every bit as terrible as that sounds. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.58.144 |
>>>>Incredible that this pitiful husk of a man should have been young once. One of the most moving chapters in Dandelion Wine reevolves round this exact situation, where young Doug and his friends tell a old lady they don't believe the photos of the beautiful young girl are pictures of her. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.191.137.205 |
There was other stuff as well - an old school diploma, some writing utensils, memorabilia he'd brought back from foreign countries, things like that. But the picture was incredibly moving. I'll post it if I can find it, I fear it's at the bottom of a cardboard box somewhere. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.15.2.82 |
Hey Guys! I'm still here. Just a little caught up with various things. I had another photo of my father, taken back in the days when they often dressed up little boys in "girlie style." I think this was in the late 1910s. It's more of a historical curiosity than nostalgia as he was not, as they say, "a good man." The frame glass is cracked but I haven't bothered to replace it, which indicates my attitude. I was once responsible for the family photo album, but made the mistake of leaving it behind with an errant sibling who vanished out of my life one day and well . . . i have very little of my family left round my house. I like it that my link inspired this thread. Thanks! |