Memory

I am beginning to wonder if this project - Eddie's idea that I should write 'memoirs' - was really such a good idea.

The problem is that the thing has acquired a life of its own - and the first few have had kittens. The other day, I was wondering what all to write about next. There are the obvious things - school, beginnings of music, etc - but I began thinking of rather more specific things - incidents, friends, adventures, interests, and so forth.

Here is a list that I wrote down in a few minutes at that time, just off the top of my head. Most of them will mean nothing to any of you, though a few may ring the odd bell in Peter's recollections:

• first aeroplane sighting
• earthquake (1952)
• Robin Dalley
• Karen Stone
• Mary Carol Street
• Being a crossing guard
• Tommy Stanton
• Jimmy Wallace
• YMCA camp
• Scouting
• Daryl Rush
• Stephen and John Dewey
• Patsy Edmonds
• Debbie Johnson
• Donald Langston
• Trip to Canada
• astronomy
• science fiction
• piano
• cornet
• Pismo Beach
• Union Avenue Plunge
• Crosley
• Lincoln (?)
• 'woodie'
• Zephyr
• Austin (?)
• icebox
• mushrooms
• bicycle brakes
• cardboard labyrinth
• pet monkey
• pet mice
• pit in vacant lot
• spelling bees
• Bronx orange trees
• San Diego Zoo
• Disneyland
• Pius XII
• Korea

Not that most of those bits and pieces could be a whole paragraph - but they are all bits of memory, and as I put them down more and more things float to the top - flotsam that I don't know what to do with.

I know what I'll do! I won't write about any of them! (this time, that is :-)). Instead - having just read Susan's little post for today - I will explain a bit of what she is referring to.

But I will do that in another post...