MEMORY SEARCH

Do you ever wonder why good memories feel so good, bad ones hurt so much, and how these memories affect your life? Why were some events so important that they will stand out forever in your mind? How much is your life ruled by events of the past? I admit that I live in the past probably more than the average person. I can for instance diagram my Gram's house that I grew up in far more accurately than I can my last apartment.
But what I am wondering right now is how many incidents in my life, that I should remember clearly, I have no memory of at all. The worst of them is I can not remember ever hearing my dad laugh, I am sure he did but I just don't remember it and that makes me sad.

THREE LESSONS LEARNED

The other day I went fishing for a couple of hours and in that short space of time I learned or relearned three very important lessons: First, that the song of the loon is my second favorite sound, second only to the laughter of my grandkids. Second that it is hard to concentrate on your bobber when there is a Bald Eagle catching a fish only about fifteen feet from you and then he went up and spent a lot of time riding the air currents, Damn it was beautiful. Third, and probably the most important, I relearned that there are still nice people around, I had a plastic bottle of tea that had fallen in the lake and floated out to where I couldn't reach it. Three young men were launching their boat, and went out and retrieved my tea for me, and threw it to me, they didn't have to, they were just nice people.