Saturday, December 15, 2018
To Embrace Sadness
".....and should my memory fail so that I remember no more, I think that day the gentle rain will fall as tears, in longing for the company that we kept." ~ TAPS A sadness sits upon my head, and weighs upon my heart....a sadness that will not go away with the reading of Blogit bits, or the playing...
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Tell Me A Story
The small farms on the south side of Richmond, MO in those years were the Bohemian Czechs. In fact, going south on Camden Road were many Jelinek families all kin. There were three families with a Rose Jelinek and they were all cousins. There was Rose (my mom), Big Rose, and Little Rose called Rosie....
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Friday, December 14, 2018
A Permanent Job?
It finally ended--the Year 1935, but not the Depression, not the dust storms, not the suffering, not the displaced, not the homeless, not the hunger, not the unemployed, not the food lines, the scrabbling for daily needs. The Year 1936 found Hursel and his family still living with Rose's parents on...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Come Boy, We Play Ka'-zi-no
Christmas of 1935 was a special one for Rose and Hursel even though the world was upside down in the Great Depression with the Dust Bowl from Canada through Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. Hursel's Papa passed away On April 6, on the 14 of April, known as Black Sunday, the Dust Bowl hit in full force...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
For Love Of Family
The first genealogy that I ever read that I can remember is that of Jesus in the Holy Bible. It was fascinating to me that the Old Testament of the Bible contained the stories of the people listed in the genealogy from Adam on and the New Testament tells the story of the birth of Christ which we are...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Diving In
How does a would-be writer pick up on a story that happened almost a century ago, and was dropped from all intention of continuation more than three years ago? Bits and pieces of the story already told attack my pea-brain with accusations of malpractice in the art of storytelling, while parts untold...
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Here We Go Again
In the year of our Lord 2015, over a period of several months, here on Blogit I wrote the story of My Oklahoma Family, beginning with an ancestor born in Scotland around the year 1800. It was quite an undertaking for me, even though I enjoyed putting it together in my own words. When I got to the...
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Thursday, December 6, 2018
Jolabokaflod--Christmas Book Flood
Years ago, around 2004, there was a Blogit member from Iceland. I can't remember his name. We read each other's posts and commented to each other. After a bit of that, he tried to get me to visit him in Iceland. That seemed just a bit drastic to me at the time even though I'm sure it is an...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018
I'm Still Here
Even though winter is not really here....yet...it surely does seem like winter. Cold...snow...thick gray clouds that hide any thought of sunshine. It is interesting how the seasons are so different some years. It will be interesting to see how the winter unfolds...after it does get here. I never...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Practicing For Their Christmas Program
For many years of my life I sang in the church choir, and about this time we began having regular weekly choir practices trying to get ready for the Grand Christmas Program. I loved singing then....not so much now. Several years in a row I suffered from sinus infection and laryngitis. Each time it...
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