Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away...

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tjpytheas: GPOYW 1966 with-my-aunt-on-the-beach edition

tjpytheas:

GPOYW 1966 with-my-aunt-on-the-beach edition


olaclaesson: Today it´s three years since my grandfather passed away. He has been my father figure since before I knew what a father figure was. He had a big kind heart and was a loving soul, told terrible jokes and made the best farts known to man. My grandfather means more to me than I can explain in words and I don´t know where I would be without him. He never judged me, he just made a great example on how to live. He walked it without having to talk it. It´s a beautiful gift to have grown up with someone like that and the older I get the more thankful I am.

olaclaesson:

Today it´s three years since my grandfather passed away. He has been my father figure since before I knew what a father figure was. He had a big kind heart and was a loving soul, told terrible jokes and made the best farts known to man. My grandfather means more to me than I can explain in words and I don´t know where I would be without him.

He never judged me, he just made a great example on how to live. He walked it without having to talk it. It´s a beautiful gift to have grown up with someone like that and the older I get the more thankful I am.


isopod: Hello, great-great grandfather. He looks haunted, somehow.

isopod:

Hello, great-great grandfather.

He looks haunted, somehow.


isopod: Things that amaze me, even though I’ve known it since I was little: my grandfather was one of 12 kids, 10 of whom survived to adulthood.  No wonder the family tree is confusing. Things that make me smile about this picture: that my grandfather felt it necessary to include his duck, and that whoever captioned the photo wrote “B, 11, and his duck.” Obviously, my grandfather is the one with the duck. This is from 1925.

isopod:

Things that amaze me, even though I’ve known it since I was little: my grandfather was one of 12 kids, 10 of whom survived to adulthood.  No wonder the family tree is confusing.

Things that make me smile about this picture: that my grandfather felt it necessary to include his duck, and that whoever captioned the photo wrote “B, 11, and his duck.”

Obviously, my grandfather is the one with the duck.

This is from 1925.


isopod: When I was little, I’d look at these photos, convinced I was related to a movie star.  Grandpa’s sister was actually a teacher.  I only had one conversation with her, at my grandpa’s funeral.  I remember her being tiny and wrinkly and still stunningly beautiful; I was 11 and she talked to me like I was someone special. That’s such a gift.

isopod:

When I was little, I’d look at these photos, convinced I was related to a movie star.  Grandpa’s sister was actually a teacher.  I only had one conversation with her, at my grandpa’s funeral.  I remember her being tiny and wrinkly and still stunningly beautiful; I was 11 and she talked to me like I was someone special.

That’s such a gift.


lilyna: Inappropriate Christmas Picture From The Past Part 2 I’d say Christmas 83-ish? Apparently I thought kissing Santa on the mouth is the way to get the best presents

lilyna:

Inappropriate Christmas Picture From The Past Part 2

I’d say Christmas 83-ish?

Apparently I thought kissing Santa on the mouth is the way to get the best presents


lilyna: Inappropriate Christmas picture from the past : Christmas 82-ish… Could my mother have put me in a shorter dress to go sit on creepy mall Santa’s lap?

lilyna:

Inappropriate Christmas picture from the past :

Christmas 82-ish…

Could my mother have put me in a shorter dress to go sit on creepy mall Santa’s lap?


wooliebear: This is a picture (of a picture—sorry) of Mr Woolie’s dad when he was working on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I’ve mentioned it before but he died in a plane crash when Mr Woolie was 5. Very sad. He was an engineer and worked on projects all over the US. He was flying home from one of his jobs when the accident happened. The 4YO cub knows that his grandpa died. Mr Woolie’s mom and stepdad have been married over 30 years and he knows Mac as his grandpa, of course. He also knows my dad died. I’m not sure how he keeps it straight yet but he has mentioned if a grandpa dies you “just get a new one.” Still, he somehow gets it, believe it or not. Anyway, grandma child-proofed Mr Woolie’s old room before our visit. She put the same photo above in a desk drawer. Of course the 4YO found it. I saw him and approached nervously “be careful with that…what are you doing?” “I’m just giving my other grandpa a kiss.” Which he was doing. He’s a good egg.

wooliebear:

This is a picture (of a picture—sorry) of Mr Woolie’s dad when he was working on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I’ve mentioned it before but he died in a plane crash when Mr Woolie was 5. Very sad. He was an engineer and worked on projects all over the US. He was flying home from one of his jobs when the accident happened.

The 4YO cub knows that his grandpa died. Mr Woolie’s mom and stepdad have been married over 30 years and he knows Mac as his grandpa, of course. He also knows my dad died. I’m not sure how he keeps it straight yet but he has mentioned if a grandpa dies you “just get a new one.” Still, he somehow gets it, believe it or not.

Anyway, grandma child-proofed Mr Woolie’s old room before our visit. She put the same photo above in a desk drawer. Of course the 4YO found it. I saw him and approached nervously “be careful with that…what are you doing?”

“I’m just giving my other grandpa a kiss.” Which he was doing.

He’s a good egg.


matthewgallaway: Saturnine On Tour Circa 1995: St. Louis, Columbia (MO) Pittsburgh, Cincinnati

matthewgallaway:

Saturnine On Tour Circa 1995: St. Louis, Columbia (MO) Pittsburgh, Cincinnati


lilyna: So…I watched Jersey Shore yesterday. Laughed, passed judgments, felt superior, etc…and also a bit scarred. Realized this morning why when going through old pics : with a few bad turns along the way, this totally could have been me. Here I am at 16 (?-ish) at Wildwood Beach NJ, ready to “party, party, drink and party!” Thank god I enrolled in the French Lit & Foreign Movies program the next year. Saved my soul, it did!

lilyna:

So…I watched Jersey Shore yesterday. Laughed, passed judgments, felt superior, etc…and also a bit scarred.

Realized this morning why when going through old pics : with a few bad turns along the way, this totally could have been me.

Here I am at 16 (?-ish) at Wildwood Beach NJ, ready to “party, party, drink and party!”

Thank god I enrolled in the French Lit & Foreign Movies program the next year. Saved my soul, it did!