My kids seem to think I have gained quite a bit of knowledge over the years. They are probably right. There is also still so much to learn. They tell me I should share these bits and pieces with people but it’s hard to put them into specific categories. I never had a formal education…regretably. I wanted to be a teacher and the guidance from a small school was “don’t go there” because that’s what everybody else is doing and there “won’t be enough jobs to go around”. Well, now I know what mt parent’s were talking about when they used to say “If I only knew then what I know now.” If my folks actually told me what it was they knew, I might have been alot better off. So I tell my kids to follow their dreams and goals as far as they can and not let other people tell them they can’t. I try to tell what I know. We all have so much more potential than we realize. We need other people to remind us of that. In my younger days raising kids, I used to co-op with other parents from things like babysitting, baking, sewing and cooking. Instead of paying money that we didn’t have (because we all wanted to be home raising our kids), we shared what we could do with each other to get what we needed. It worked great! It could probably work in today’s society (25 years later) just as well. Maybe some modifications need to be made.
There was a guy at our church who tried to establish this idea of connecting the “have’s” with the “have nots”. One bulletin board you could post something you needed done, or needed help with like yard work, home repair or sewing or childcare . On the other board people would post the things they could do. Joe died of pancreatic cancer before it ever came to be. I think of that often. I think of him. It would be nice to give it a try. Networking. Isnt’ that what we are supposed to do? How many of you are the “Have’s”? … and the “Have Nots”?
I’ll post more “BitsandPieces” in future articles.
In the mean time there are those perplexing memories like “That night at the hotel in NC”, or “One surgery a year from 1996-2004″, or “Famous Family Vacations” and “Family Holidays”
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