What do you remember and how specific are your memories? What people do you remember? How about conversations? Do you remember sermons? Do you remember the person who sat in front of you in church
As I move more firmly into older age as a member of the first class of baby-boomers, my life started right after World War II ended and before the Korean War began. In 1951, I was five years old and it was the fifties when life was dramatically different.
I had some pretty out-sized people in my early life, including my mother and my father and lots of aunts and uncles. They all contributed to who I am today.
Now that I'm 71, many of these memories are really fuzzy if they're still there at all. Is there a way to bring them back.
Novelist Warren Adler, 87, says in this post that he works hard at it everyday and has had some success. He says the memories are still clearly in our brain. He says, "Everything that happens in the life of a human being is stored somewhere in the brain, intact and perhaps as fresh and viable as when it was first experienced."
One of my bucket list items is a written version of my life that I can give my grandkids. They should know about the patriarch of their family. And it's a great story.
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