DocAndersen
If we begin our journey with a moment, which moment then would we choose? There are over the years so many different moments, so many times that shape where we are or who we are. The moments, fragments and memories that comprise the history of who we are. There is always; we are human, history around us. It is the fabric into which our lives are woven, the moments that we see, hear and feel around us. History is the world. The world is history. At that moment we realize that we are more and less, the less being the reality that we are but one small piece of the world around ourselves. The moment we realize that we are critical to that world, however.
It is our perceptions, our view and our impact that changes the very world in which we live. We are the shape of the world when we are born, and we shape the world into which we are torn. Today I thought in the reflection of the family history I share every day that I would, in fact, share some of the inflection moments that changed who I am.
Back in 1972, my Grandfather Andersen passed away. It bothered me when he died. I could never put my finger on why his passing bothered me. By the time I was 12 years old, living in Thailand we were not close, my grandfather and I. We were close, I just didn’t know it.
By 12 I was already heavily connected to my mother’s father. But what I didn’t know, or remember was that growing up my father’s father was often there. He was present in my life much more than I recalled, His death bothered me at the time because I knew he was gone, I found later in reviewing all the family pictures what that truly meant that he wasn’t there anymore.
I love that picture of the kids up there — this is the age I like them most anyway. When you are their sun hahahaha and it is fun to pick a kid’s brain this age because the things that come out of their mouth is just insightful lol…I was close to my dad’s mother but I was away working in the city when she died.
I love kids that age, but they become interesting and different as they age. The fun of watching the evolution is also interesting.