tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post6838575967902503957..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Monday Memories: The CreekJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-35506902247446941652018-10-01T22:11:31.695-05:002018-10-01T22:11:31.695-05:00John,
Beautifully stated, and that last paragraph ...John,<br />Beautifully stated, and that last paragraph is simply wondrous.<br /><br />Will,<br />Many thanks for the tip on the Detectorists series. It looks great and I'm probably going to order the DVDs.<br /><br />Rick,<br />No, I think that would have been 'way too much work for us. We weren't exacty the most industrious bunch.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-20613604311445162412018-10-01T12:04:25.464-05:002018-10-01T12:04:25.464-05:00Another wonderful recollection, James, thank you v...Another wonderful recollection, James, thank you very much indeed.<br /><br />I would have thought you guys would have tried to muck out your swimming hole to make it deeper, so actual jumping in and swimming would have been possible. Did you ever try it?Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-8405763008630679332018-10-01T10:38:40.271-05:002018-10-01T10:38:40.271-05:00Very nice, James. I love your poignant reminescen...Very nice, James. I love your poignant reminescences -- and also those John Hocking adds occasionally as comments to yours. Today you-all have reminded me of a wonderful snippet from MacKenzie Crook's Detectorist series (which is absolutely full of the sorts of moments you often mention):<br /><br />"Metal detecting is the closest you'll get to time travel," reflects Lance in the final episode of Detectorists (13 December, 10pm, BBC4). "See, archaeologists, they gather up the facts, piece the jigsaw together, work out how we lived and find the buildings we lived in. But what we do … that's different. We unearth the scattered memories. Mine for stories. Fill in the personality … We're time travelers." [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/dec/09/detectorists-rich-portrait-unremarkable-lives-gone-slightly-awry-mackenzie-crook]<br /><br />James, you and John are also time travelers. Muchas gracias!W Robjertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03249860081253836564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-3402759204332447452018-10-01T08:37:43.668-05:002018-10-01T08:37:43.668-05:00A sweet and poignant post, James.
I find odd memo...A sweet and poignant post, James.<br /><br />I find odd memories, incidents, bits of conversation, brief lost moments that might have had significance at the time or perhaps did not, stand out unexpectedly in my mind. <br />Fragments of a time that has passed and that I can't say if anyone else recalls at all, much less with anything like the strange elegiac significance I've somehow involuntarily given to them. <br />These pop into my mind pretty regularly, and always come as a bit of a surprise.<br /><br />I guess part of it is that no matter how much consideration you give to what it might be like to grow old, you can't truly anticipate the reality of having lived in a world that is lost to all but memory. <br /><br />John Hocking Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com