UPDATED WITH NEW PHOTO 7/23/08 9:30AM MDT
While I was swimming today I was thinking about this (and swimming is amazingly liberating in that regard; as you go back and forth, back and forth, in the pool, your mind wanders off into all sorts of things. I could never do that with exercise before; when I tried running or working out, all I could think of was how sweaty and painful and unpleasant it was).
But anyway, as I said, I was thinking about this and decided to post some more pictures to illustrate this point even further, if not to drive it into the ground and break it off. Besides, no one else is doing any writing although I've gotten a few stories and am working them into another post. And hey!, it's my blog and that's the point of a blog, being totally self-indulgent and doing what you dang!well please.
So first, here's a photo of Roy and Ruth when Guinn was little, probably about 1935 or so:
OK, now one with Randall, say about 1942:
And one with Jimmy as a child, 1947:
OK, finally, one with me, about 1956 or so (and it appears that Mom is offering me some kind of bribe, probably to shut me up so that whomever can take the picture). I didn't have one from this period with both Mom and Dad and me, that I could easily find:
So here are the two of them as I remember them; this was taken in 1969, a year before he died. This is what I see when I think of "Mom and Dad":
So what's the point of this? Only that in writing this family history blog, it's almost like you have to compile four separate family history blogs; and that's just for us! Both of my kids, Rachel and Sarah, are constantly amazed by how many cousins they have; I know for a fact that there is no way I could begin to name second and third and however many cousins you can go on the consanguinity of cousins before they become total strangers. As I was looking through the photos I had, there were many of the Jordan kids, with whom I spent a great deal of time growing up. As we go along I'll include a few posts about them, and who knows, maybe one of them will see this and want to respond.
While I was swimming today I was thinking about this (and swimming is amazingly liberating in that regard; as you go back and forth, back and forth, in the pool, your mind wanders off into all sorts of things. I could never do that with exercise before; when I tried running or working out, all I could think of was how sweaty and painful and unpleasant it was).
But anyway, as I said, I was thinking about this and decided to post some more pictures to illustrate this point even further, if not to drive it into the ground and break it off. Besides, no one else is doing any writing although I've gotten a few stories and am working them into another post. And hey!, it's my blog and that's the point of a blog, being totally self-indulgent and doing what you dang!well please.
So first, here's a photo of Roy and Ruth when Guinn was little, probably about 1935 or so:
OK, now one with Randall, say about 1942:
And one with Jimmy as a child, 1947:
OK, finally, one with me, about 1956 or so (and it appears that Mom is offering me some kind of bribe, probably to shut me up so that whomever can take the picture). I didn't have one from this period with both Mom and Dad and me, that I could easily find:
So here are the two of them as I remember them; this was taken in 1969, a year before he died. This is what I see when I think of "Mom and Dad":
So what's the point of this? Only that in writing this family history blog, it's almost like you have to compile four separate family history blogs; and that's just for us! Both of my kids, Rachel and Sarah, are constantly amazed by how many cousins they have; I know for a fact that there is no way I could begin to name second and third and however many cousins you can go on the consanguinity of cousins before they become total strangers. As I was looking through the photos I had, there were many of the Jordan kids, with whom I spent a great deal of time growing up. As we go along I'll include a few posts about them, and who knows, maybe one of them will see this and want to respond.
1 comment:
I'm not sure where my comments are going but I have "typed my fingers to the bone" and it just goes out there and keeps on going.
But I have to mention that considering that Roy was born in October of 1952 he could hardly have been sitting on a couch with Mom in 1950. Also the picture with Randall, Mom and Dad was taken in Fabens when they ran a cafe there and we moved from there in 1940.
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