No blogs without their bloggers..? 18 1 19 (16) 25 2 18

Which query came to mind just the other day as I started re-reading some old blogs from 5 to 10 years ago from the time I used to post my blogs on MySpaces..? And then with my elder grandson, A, this past month, during the time he has had this equipment to scan old transparencies, he has been engaged in scanning some of mine from the 60s, 70s and 80's during my days of film cameras, I got to reviewing the best part of my collection of old pics, and in the process ran across slides of my wedding day to A-E, my wife of 50 +years, and far better than the ones we had done in a studio on the morning of the day of the ceremony...Then one slide box containing pics of all my old girl-friends, not an enormous collection and not all pics of girls I was very serious about...

So then I got to reviewing my memories of these events and situations to be impressed yet again how one's perceptions change about who we were and what we did during our lives, and because I happen to have a strong sense of history, how fortunate modern man is to have all these tools at his disposal, not to mention all the modern medicines, or more particularly dietary supplements which contrive to keep the brain functioning with lucidity far beyond the reasonable time of earlier generations..?

And how time more than anything in this life is perhaps the greatest leveller? But for modern man on the whole a leveller for many more people today than ever before in the long history of mankind. Only yesterday for example I read about the demise of the Aztecs and how some German scientists have now established that 80% of their population of 15 million was wiped out in just a few years by an unknown pestilence, a stomach bug in layman's terms, that was introduced into their culture by foreigners, as has been proven by examining the ancient DNA associated with 15 of their corpses from a massed grave from the period and finding remnants of offending bacteria on their victims' teeth: unbelievable that after debating the matter for 100 years or more modern man has now come up with the solution to the quandary surrounding their deaths!

Well, all such stuff got me thinking how nice it is to peruse all these old data, and whilst during the year I got married in the 60's I turfed out most of the stuff to do with old girl-friends, like all my old love letters, but now I'm thinking maybe I should assign their pics to a photo album for the period together with examples of all the rest of old pics of friends and children in their infancy, etc..? Unbelievable that these young women for example, for the most part appeared no more than slips of young lasses, though at the time some struck one as being all grown up and of a superior maturity and/or intellect..? hahaha

And then the blogs mostly stream of consciousness stuff like this one but quite worth reading for the historical facts these thoughts were framed in: the blogs for example I wrote about my father who died when I was only 5½ but whose letters home covering the last 3 years of WW ll which had only just come into my possession when I reflected upon the fact that like I, he was a lousy speller of English unlike other members of my parents’ family, but with this second reading seeing other similarities: about the way we each use familiar but repeated openings to tracts of writing, and how now I am able to reflect on the fact that my elder brother also prides himself at 79, of still writing his journal when the rest of my family which includes by two sons and their mother, never write anything for other people to read, or even for their own enjoyment. Only a single grand-daughter who read Creative Writing for her University degree course to gain a First Class Honours degree and one of my two daughters-in-law who writes a very popular blog for her Japanese readership reinforces how some traits run in some families but apparently not in others..?

Now on the 30^th anniversary of the day I started work in this country for the last time I will bid you all Good Day, the sun is shining happily , while fallen pine branches adorn our east facing garden draped in the first real snows (?) of the winter which by the sea where we swim promises for the first time in many a year to provide ice of a thickness to permit walks to our nearest islands..?    

So what is it about the past that is so absorbing..? 18 1 19 (16 hit in total)
The past and its ever changing hue i might add since my elder son during our last face to face discusion acquainted me with the fact he has now started to write stuff about his past from the time he graduated and lived in Japan for 5 yrs.