tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post3725303217868771292..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: When I Was A (Much) Younger Man...RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-82536167791578132352013-10-06T10:43:02.645-07:002013-10-06T10:43:02.645-07:00You're most welcome Danneau--
But that one re...You're most welcome Danneau--<br /><br />But that one really was the work of the former tiny, no really big, E. I was just along for the ride.<br /><br /><br />______<br />(and yes, there is a whole bunch of stuff in the can from that session back in July - more to come).<br /><br />.<br />RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-87758932931858415752013-10-06T10:07:04.049-07:002013-10-06T10:07:04.049-07:00I listened to the Coalmine Summer and really enjoy...I listened to the Coalmine Summer and really enjoyed it tremendously. How lovely to have the appreciation of family and the appreciation of music blend so smoothly. Now I have to get out and start )re-)writing on my next musical birthday greeting for my one and only E(rica). Thanks for all you do.Danneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129916194006552602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-2434587343087647482013-10-06T09:59:39.426-07:002013-10-06T09:59:39.426-07:00Eleanor--
Oh, no question about all that enjoymen...Eleanor--<br /><br />Oh, no question about all that enjoyment of the grown and and the growing up fast kid.<br /><br />It's just so, so different.<br /><br /><br />.<br /><br />RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-2340876173380768242013-10-06T09:57:21.620-07:002013-10-06T09:57:21.620-07:00Not at all Danneau.
I've already started to w...Not at all Danneau.<br /><br />I've already started to wonder about that grandparent perspective thing.<br /><br />Oh, to have lived in Tiburon back then.<br /><br />We have great friends, retired with grandchildren, who grew up in the Bay Area (he in San Rafael - I've been oft-regaled by stories similar to yours), raised their kids in the Bay Area, and who not long ago cashed-in and moved to Mendocino county...<br /><br />It's interesting up there - certainly the price of real-estate right on the coast has sky-rocketed. But on the other side of Highway 1, just up the hills, there are still many working class families, many of them Latino. I bet many of the kids in those families are growing up like you and your brothers did.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-82174550199132144702013-10-06T09:53:25.627-07:002013-10-06T09:53:25.627-07:00I count myself lucky that when my children were ju...I count myself lucky that when my children were just hitting elementary school that a senior lawyer at the firm where I worked advised me to 'enjoy my kids while they were young because they grow up in the blink of an eye'. I appreciated at the time that I was getting good advice and I think I took heed. And I would repeat the advice to myself during my daughter's teens. That said, I am really cherishing my time with my 20-something kids.Eleanor Gregorynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-86641126274377384102013-10-06T09:42:22.206-07:002013-10-06T09:42:22.206-07:00We function on the basis of a necessary myopia.
-...We function on the basis of a necessary myopia.<br /><br />---Alain de Botton<br /><br />Especially in our own lives, but then again with those of our children, we often have a multiplicity of concerns that inhibits us from even periodic taking of stock of where we are and keeping some perspective on what is past and what is yet to come. I'm finding that perspective is much more available as a grandparent than it ever was in relation to my younger life and that of my stepson and his progeny. Perhaps it's a simple factor of having more past than future, who knows. <br /><br />I spent my first twelve years in Tiburon, back in the days when a family could be poor and still live in Marin County. Our little acre below the Tiburon Ridge was ringed with eucalyptus trees, and many was the pitched battle fought with "eukie nuts" among the myriad neighbourhood children. My immediately elder brother, with his scientific bent, once tried to distill some eukie nut whiskey. The venture did not come to fruition due to early parental intervention, a lucky thing for all concerned. I always have that Proustian reaction to a whiff of real eucalyptus, that being immediate mental transportation back to Tiburon in the '50s and early '60s. <br /><br />Sorry for the blabbing.Danneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129916194006552602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-34949749460241078472013-10-06T08:21:47.314-07:002013-10-06T08:21:47.314-07:00Paul--
Absolutely.
But, at the time, I don't...Paul--<br /><br />Absolutely.<br /><br />But, at the time, I don't think I would have ever believed it.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-29592216859361223142013-10-06T07:45:38.212-07:002013-10-06T07:45:38.212-07:00I think everybody, when their first kid arrives, s...I think everybody, when their first kid arrives, should get that tattooed on their arms, or at least write it out and stick it on the fridge or the bathroom mirror.<br />"It really does all go by in a flash..."paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003637352818760817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-75845310309714430252013-10-05T23:01:22.031-07:002013-10-05T23:01:22.031-07:00Thanks Bob--
Truth be told, sometimes tough for m...Thanks Bob--<br /><br />Truth be told, sometimes tough for me to keep all the various incarnations (of the letter, not the kids themselves) straight in my own head.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-87697128465427252342013-10-05T21:08:59.814-07:002013-10-05T21:08:59.814-07:00I love the "e" and "E" posts, ...I love the "e" and "E" posts, RossK.<br /><br />;-) . . . . West End Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04899808253017644309noreply@blogger.com