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Some people try to hold onto their memories. Others try to forget. Neither works.
And after enough time passes by, you find you are not the same as you used to be.
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“angels can fly because they take themselves lightly” - G.K. Chesterton
This website contains cultural essays I wrote from 2013 to 2016 on topics of interest to fellow baby boomers, along with some family history material relating to Ashland County Ohio. It is divided into topical sections with links listed along the top edge of this page and others that will drop down if you click on "More". Those with an arrow have sub pages but also have a main section so don't ignore the main link, for example clicking "RAF Chicksands" will bring up the main Chicksands page while clicking the arrow by RAF Chicksands gives you a drop down menu of additional Chicksands related pages.
I have four other historical websites, just click on their links/pictures below:
https://sites.google.com/view/gettysburgcollege1972/home
https://sites.google.com/view/child-study-club-ashland
https://sites.google.com/view/cornell-fraternity-history/home
“If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
“If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,
We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,
If only we could act instead of talking,
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn't always end up on our arse.
We wouldn't always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
― Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Let everything happen to you
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
Just keep going
No feeling is final
No feeling is final
― Rainer Maria Rilke
On the value of writing:
If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. (From A Man Without a Country)
Subtopics on my various linked websites include: A.L. Garber Company, Little Rita Rosebud, RAF Chicksands, Goodfellow Air Force Base, 1961 Ashland Ohio History, Ashland Country Club, Camp Mowana, Mudstock, Jeromesville History, Ashland Ohio History, Austin Healey 3000, Mercedes 190SL, Bickershaw Festival Mudstock, Daisy BB Guns, Brewster McCloud, Mimsy Farmer, Betsy Jobs, Growing Up In Jeromesville Ohio History, Strongsville High School History, Ashland Ohio blogs
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