The Passing of the Train (+playlist)

My Family

My Mom Ester is sitting, I am left, then my sisters Brenda, Susan Cathy Donna and Sharon

Family Ties

I found out my Aunt Roberta is in the hospital in Charleston SC.  Mom and my sister went to Fayetteville where she lives and took here back home to help here get well.  She had been sick since Christmas.  The doctors said her kidneys had stopped working and she has had to go on dialysis.  This is very bad news and worries me.  I like her and pray that she gets well soon.  My Mom will see to it that she takes the right course for treatment and stays the course to wellness.  Mom has a lot on her shoulders with our family.

Starting off A New Year

Here I am starting off a new year.  Some of my friends have past on last year.  I thought back to the times I spent with them.  The thoughts were like watching old newsreels.  I had old memories and places in my mind I hadn't seen in years.  I once tried to write a book about my life but when I started it was too painful.

I don't do New Year resolutions.  I think they are kind of silly.  How many people really keep them?  I have never know of any.  If you are going to stop doing something or start doing something you will.  Most of the time it is about changing your lifestyle.  Nuff  said on that.

I hope to make new friends and to enjoy my life more.  There is a song that says if I could go back in time the first thing I'd change is me.  That hit me hard.  I love my family so very much.  First there is my wife, Sherry.  I love my sons.  I love my step daughter and grand children.  I found my Mom and sisters this past year and I love them oh so very much.  I got Aunts and Uncles that I can't remember their names yet but I'm working on that one.  I hope I can spend more time with Momma.

I hope to get out and do some of the things I did in the past that gave me joy like fishing and target shooting.  I can't ride a motorcycle much anymore but I can go short distances.  I hurt though.  I like to get out and work in the yard and tinker with stuff.  I got an old 76 Chevy truck that I like.  It's fun to drive but looks bad.

I tell ya, for someone who doesn't like New Years resolutions I have been hitting the nail on the head mighty close.  I might be writing a doable bucket list.

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Looking back Down the Road.

On these days that are turning cold and rainy finds me looking back on my life.  A feeling of sadness soon follows as I visit old places and memories.  Its just bits and pieces of this and that, here and there.  I don't hardly ever try to pick a place or time.  They just come out at me.  I find myself more alone as I get older.  I like it better and don't want to be trifled with trying to make friends and be sociable.   I just do better on my own.  I have always been that way and never had more than a couple of good friends that were close at any given time.

It's almost funny how I used to wish I had time to travel or to fish or this or that but all I do is stay close to home and read or sit and think.  Sleeping is a blessing.  I hate to awake.  Dear will be the day when I don't.