This
is the most wonderful time of the year to be living in Florida!! The
night are really cold, from low 40's down to freezing. The days are
something to get excited about though. The daytime temperatures are
roughly in the 70's. That is certainly nothing to complain about!!
I
don't think but maybe there are a handful that live here for the
summers. It is not the heat that is really bad here. Although, it can
be taxing on your body. The dad-blamed humidity is what is so rough.
Seeing how there are all kinds of creeks, canals, swamps, and rivers
in this state, and don't forget there is an ocean on three sides of
this state to help with the problem.
There
is something special about the rain here also. I have been outside on
scorching hot day when all of a sudden rain would come from nowhere.
You can see the steam rising from the earth, and suddenly it gets
real hard to breathe. Sweat pours from your body, as you begin to
grow weaker by the minute.
I
guess the climate is changing here, because when I first got here in
the early nineties it was different. Everyday in the first couple
months of summer you could almost set your watch by the rain. I used
to work a lot outside, and everyday during this time it would rain
around four o’clock. It was a very welcome sight, after you have
been in the sun all day. The funny thing was it lasted at least an
hour when it started. We never seemed to mind packing up for the day
in the rain. We were simply relieved that it was over!!
I
guess that I am starting to show my age in two different areas. You
know how old men like to talk about the weather. If you don't then
take my work for it. If you every around older folks, and feel that
you need to say something. You have a sure bet with speaking about
the weather when you are with men. The older girls used to like to
talk about cooking, and of coarse about old men talking about the
weather!! I really don't know if that has changed any.
Another
area that I am showing my age in is talking about the old days. I
doubt that you will find anyone that is as interested in your past
life as you are!! You have lived it, and no one quite remembers it
like you do. You might remember a total different version than all
the rest of them do, and that ok. You just go a head, and tell your
story the way that you think that it happened. In a hundred years
from now there wont be anybody to dispute your story. I really doubt
if anyone remember any story that we might tell in another hundred
years.
We live. We die, and we move on. Yeah,........It's that
simple!! The only choices that are really going to matter is how we
choice to spend our here after. The only choice that we need to get
right!! All the rest of them are so minor. They really don't amount
to a hill of beans. To ever be an important enough figure to be
remembered in history you would have to do something totally
exceptional. Most of us will never make it. That is the fact that most of us will
not be remembered for that long.
Need
an example? How many pictures does your mother have of family
members that she does not even know the names of them? I am talking
about old pictures, but still less than a hundred years old. The
truth is that our memory will not last that long. I know that more
than likely they wont even know that I ever existed in a hundred
years. That will be a good thing, because some folks will be
remembered forever. Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, and a few more
psychopaths that left their mark on history in a negative way.
I wonder how I
will feel if I am walking down the street of heaven, and see Charles
Manson? Would I take off running to Jesus, and out of breath start
complaining? Something is wrong with this picture!! Manson is in
here!! It has to be a mistake!!
I bet in time
that we will be confronted with several folks that we never thought
that we would see there. I don't believe that we will mind, because I
doubt if we will remember the wrongs that people have done. I sure
hope that they can't remember mine.......
….........Much Love
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