I helped Mom clean out Mari's closet today. Mari is my grandmother. She's 98 and wanted to re-visit the past and make room for new clothing purchases. We found documents and letters from the 1800s. I ate lunch while reading the Boston Gazette from March 2, 1801.
Amazing to read a letter from John Adams to Congress regarding his Washington DC property. A notice about a runaway indentured apprentice. A music teacher who opened a school in her apartment. Starch imported from Poland at .10 a pound. A man who lost a ten and twenty dollar bill and needed it returned. A letter of appreciation from the state of Massachusetts to the U.S. President. Amazing that I touched a document nearly as old as our Constitution. Read letters and deeds to Property owned by someone named Hopeful.
A good start to 2009...missing all the good things our country used to be.
Where is our honor?
When will we choose to put down the curly fries and take up our pride? Turn off the reality TV and start living our own lives? Stop subscribing to the celebrity pap and start realizing our potential?
It's time now.
1.08.2009
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2009
I don't know how many of you know this but the number nine is my favorite number. I was born in November, originally the ninth month, and on the ninth day. I was number nine on my high school basketball team and volleyball team. So, remembering the nines in my life comes easily.
1979 - Eight years old. The Muppet Show and Lawrence Welk, The Electric Company and Hee Haw, my new year's celebration was being woken at midnight to hugs and kisses and then falling back to sleep.
1989 - The year the Berlin Wall came down. On my birthday no less. A party of 150 friends and bands that played as well as a police raid for my birthday. High school graduation (Go Greyhounds!), a first love that broke my heart, and friends that put it back together again. A hundred concerts and dancing on weekends.
1999 - Being the first to celebrate the new year since I was living in Japan. Wearing pajamas, standing in a drafty Japanese telephone booth and racking up $300 in phone charges calling all my friends and family. Losing myself in European travels and finding my way home again.
2009 - Older, wiser, healthier, more humorous. I wish I were younger but know what I know now...and I'm only a third of the way through this life. Wanting to do more but feeling still a bit unsure. Ready for a new chapter of freedom and growth.
Happy New Year!
1979 - Eight years old. The Muppet Show and Lawrence Welk, The Electric Company and Hee Haw, my new year's celebration was being woken at midnight to hugs and kisses and then falling back to sleep.
1989 - The year the Berlin Wall came down. On my birthday no less. A party of 150 friends and bands that played as well as a police raid for my birthday. High school graduation (Go Greyhounds!), a first love that broke my heart, and friends that put it back together again. A hundred concerts and dancing on weekends.
1999 - Being the first to celebrate the new year since I was living in Japan. Wearing pajamas, standing in a drafty Japanese telephone booth and racking up $300 in phone charges calling all my friends and family. Losing myself in European travels and finding my way home again.
2009 - Older, wiser, healthier, more humorous. I wish I were younger but know what I know now...and I'm only a third of the way through this life. Wanting to do more but feeling still a bit unsure. Ready for a new chapter of freedom and growth.
Happy New Year!
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