May 17, 1974
to
May 17 2010
...by the numbers...
- 5 children
- 2 tonsilectomies
- 2 eye surgeries
- 5 casts
- stitches and stitches and stitches
- 2 years of dancing lessons
- 3 years of soccer
- 6 years of Little League
- 3 elementary schools
- 3 middle schools
- 2 high schools
- 3 years of swim team
- 12 years of band
- 2 Eagle Scouts
- 2 scholarships
- 12 colleges
- 3 missionaries
- 1 Peace Corps volunteer
- 2 weddings
- 4 grandchildren
- 6 dogs
- 12 cats
- 4 birds
- 9 rats
- 1 bunny
- 1 gerbil
- 1 snake
- 1 goat
- 6 chickens
- mucho fish
- 4 states
- 6 cities/towns
- 14 cars/trucks
- 5 Harleys
- 1 row boat
- 1 canoe
- 1 trampoline
- 3 bicycles
- 1 waterbed
- 1 sewing machine
- 3 washers
- 2 deployments
- we stopped counting arrivals and departures
- 3 + decades of kisses, arguments, laughter and tears
Here's hoping for innumerable good times to come.
2 comments:
A comedian, too. At this time,in the third quarter of my planned 100 years of life I decided that I would live spiritually, simple, and in truth, I also thought about mortality as everyone does and decided not to fear the next phase of my life, I stared at Oak trees often and wanted to pass like a leaf that fell to earth, seedded and became a oak tree in its next living experience, all fear then vanished to indifference, I became happy as never before, simple was the answer and now I give by my example, surity.
Buddhist readings saved me from worldly ways, I read that to stop my suffering I had to stop craving, craving caused suffering, I was craving to get even with a ex-wife and suffering, in a miracle moment I gave up the craving and moved into happiness, my past did not exist, guilt gone, worry gone, the future was not here, I live in the happiness of my present, like "Charly" my Dachshund who sleeps on my bed, he only looks forward fixed.I traded it all for happiness, of which I never tire.
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