REMINISCE

237 Reminiscence - Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Whenever we are home for a visit, it always seems that we end up at some point reminiscing over either some nostalgic event or simply running through a whole list of consecutive thoughts somehow linked together with a chain made of people, places or things each evoking the next in the series. Today was one of those days – it started out harmlessly enough with my mother asking Cynthia to crawl down on the floor (a feat for Mom, but thankfully still fairly simple for my honey) and look through some old videos that she thought she remembered were held in the sacred archives of a cabinet conveniently located between two favorite living room chairs. She pulled them from the maze with adeptness that left my mother’s jaw lower and her eyes wider than before. Amazed that she had found them so quickly, Mom instantly slid one of them into the VCR and began playing the recording of our former music group etched for posterity nearly twenty-one years ago. The occasion that inspired the treasure hunt was a reunion we have scheduled with the friends from those years who are coming to Mom’s to visit, now living in the vicinity making travel possible – boy are they going to be jazzed to see themselves as we saw ourselves – older – whiter headed – but such is life and the joys of aging simultaneously producing an increasingly thickening of the soul making it impervious to embarrassment. We watched images of grown children in their youth and deceased elders revisiting our memories, both equally adept at drawing an effervescent tear to the corner of the eye. We reminisced too long – dinner was later and the roast was drier than expected, but the hearts were warmed and richer for the experience. Reminiscence – I highly recommend it!!!

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