I waded into another batch of 8mm recordings from my childhood. This was from the time when I was still vaguely cute.
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I waded into another batch of 8mm recordings from my childhood. This was from the time when I was still vaguely cute.
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You and my half-brother are about the same age. He texted last night to check up on me because Milton was looking for his red stapler in my backyard.
Anyway your video spans your own youth to around the time I was born, weeks before the Tet Offensive. I can’t assert the year I was born was the worst given the rise of Trump, but ‘68 kinda had issues.
The beginning of your video reminds me of when I first recall snow, which was on a visit to relatives when I was quite young. I didn’t grow up in it.
I need to look at photo albums soon to see my parents again. It’s been decades. They do often visit my dreams. So does my late dog of 17 years sometimes.
Weird thing for me is because my mom had a bunch of siblings and was one of the youngest of the bunch I was much closer in age to my second cousins than most of my cousins. Got confusing doing picture groupings during family reunions. I was cast with the Boomers instead of my X’er cohort.
The camping stuff was cool. My dad made a point of taking me camping and hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains and Pisgahs before we started the state parks in north Georgia which are pretty impressive themselves. I have old photos but no videos. Fun times. Never been to the Pacific Northwest. Looks nice.
Both parents smoked. You know how that turned out.
Thanks, PZ, for sharing your back-in-time video memories. All of us, your age and older, can relate to this evocative stuff. But most of us didn’t have someone shooting film of everyday activities. This kind of personal reflection has become rare.
With kids, everyone having iPhones, it’s too easy, ordinary and mundane.
I sound like an old person. I am an old person.
I’ve always loved the insights into you, PZ, though I rarely comment. I remember my dad (the demon) making videos of us with the big bar of lights in one hand and the camera in another but I don’t think any of those videos remain (he was a vindictive kind of demon). I’m kind of happy my past was so ephemeral and not on the internet forever.
@4 flange – Nothing wrong with being old, it’s what happens if we’re lucky. Love your comment.