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Eagles overhead, Snow on the ground, it’s Springtime!
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Silent Night
Silent Night has always been one of my favourite songs. Partly because I love how we sing it at the candlelight service on Christmas Eve, but mostly because of Mrs. Taylor who used to look after me when I was a baby. I remember her singing both Silent Night and Jesus Loves Me over and over when I was a little one. I remember her giving me a sugar cube when I got bucked off my first horse when I…
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Back to the basics
I started this blog 8.5 years ago (ish) on my 44th birthday as a way of tracking my search for happiness. I was so lost then, living in what was not only an unhappy marriage but a dangerous one as well. I was desperately seeking comfort, safety…. Happiness I suppose was the word I chose for what I was seeking. Freedom would have been a better word. Inner Freedom would have been a better phrase.…
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There really isn’t much chance of my getting into Stanford (FGK 275)
Spoiler alert: Mom went to Stanford and had the time of her life.
University of Sam Diego College for Women
4/28/59
Dear Mom, Dad and Marsh;
First: Official recognition of all your letters, and I’m glad we’re in the social register even though I think it’s a terribly snobby idea.
I usually type off the letters just before class or something like that and don’t bother to look at your letter…
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That Tough Town of Cochrane (FGK 274)
If I was awake and at work at 4am I’d also be posting the time in the letter. I love her letter writing digs – as I’ve mentioned Auntie Sheila was always consistent about writing me letters when I was younger and away and I see now why it was so important. I wish I’d been better about writing back. Her story about getting sick on Chinese food reminded me of a time when we met at my cousin’s place…
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(FGK 273)
Happy Star Wars Day! Here’s a letter written on this day 65 years ago, ages before Star Wars arrived on the scene. May the Fourth Be With You
It amazes me all of the things mom was doing. As a child I remember going family swimming and it was quite a production – just the logistics of getting mom ready and then safely in the pool and then dad held her the whole time. How did she manage swimming…
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Christmas letters from Florida friends 1957 (FGK 272)
I’m back, up and running!! My site crashed and like most things after taking a break from each other I managed to fix it today. Nothing like a fresh mind to look at things differently. To say the least.
I’m not sure who this letter is from. It seems like an adult in mom’s world while she was in Florida at school. I must be out of practice, this handwriting was a bit harder for me and a lot of it…
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The Wild Winds Blew My Hat Off and Ruined my Hairdo (FGK 271)
Lovely stream of thought kind of letter from Grandma. Can certainly tell that her life and responsibilities have changed somewhat as kids have grown and she’s finally become the person I knew her as – “Grandma”. I laughed so hard at her comment about her hair being ruined – her hair routine was something else and she always looked so well put together. And it seems as though we’ve entered the era…
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Aunt Gertie living in a Disney Movie (FGK 270)
I imagine Aunt Gertie in a Disney movie kind of scenario as she describes her boat ride. Not the scary traumatic parts of Disney movies (why Disney why?) but more the skipping along singing with the animals who are your best friends (of course until the gun came out haha).
There is an art to letter writing and Aunt Gertie had it. So did Grandma and several other women who would send mom letters…
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Do you want some Badger Skin Rugs? (FGK 269)
Yesterday I was in the basement of the cottage getting ready for the furnace guy and as I was leaving I glanced on a shelf – one that I’ve passed countless times (as seems to be the case with these discoveries). There was a box full of “congratulations on having your first baby” cards. Me, being the first baby, grabbed the cards curious to see what they were. Tons of congratulations cards for mom…
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Frank Brown Photos
There was an envelope with some photos of my great-grandfather (Grandma’s Dad) in the booklet with these most recent memories. Grandma’s handwriting for her stories was exceptional, these photos she must have labeled as her eyesight was going. Finding photos, I’ve been so grateful how Grandma has labeled so many of them – and for the ones that she didn’t my uncle was a huge help recognizing faces…
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Browns have made mark on Calgary area history
Here’s a newspaper article that was stuck in with Grandma’s memories. For those of you who may not know, her maiden name was Brown. I’ll include a photo of the whole article, but just write out the part that is about her father (Frank). This article ties us back to where Grandma was talking about the Fire in Cochrane when she was a child. I knew about the fire bit (only from what Grandma wrote),…
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Grandma’s Account of the Great Fire of 1936
I was so incredibly happy to discover that I have Grandma’s story of the fire. I heard her tell this story often when I was a kid and it always fascinated me. How brave she was!!! And as I read this account I had to ask myself “was this were Grandma’s intense need for a cup of tea in a crisis came from??” At Christmastime I was sharing stories with my cousin about all the times Grandma needed to…
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Cochrane in Grandma’s Childhood (early 1900s) part II
Cochrane had a very famous race track a mile and half west of town. A turn track which means it was grass and easy for the horses to run on. And it was a mile around it, and it was very level. The big ranches all over the country brought their fastest horses to race on it and the big horse ranches brought in horse from all over Canada and England. The Cochrane races would last two or more weeks.…
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Cochrane in Grandma’s Childhood (early 1900’s)
I was done. I was certain I was done. As I’ve mentioned I don’t go looking for this stuff, it seems to find me. Today I was unpacking a couple of trunks that had moved back with us from Virginia. I honestly don’t remember even opening them in the almost 8 years since we’ve moved back – but today I decided to dump everything so I could use the storage space. Ohhhh the treasures I found. Included…
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Mom’s Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Carriage
When I was 10 years old, our grade 5 class was supposed to spend the week skiing at what was then Paskapoo for a week (it later became Canada Olympic Park or COP, later Winsport). Unfortunately for me I got sick, and not just a little sick – fever so bad I remember getting delirious and I couldn’t eat or drink anything for days. I remember mom feeling so bad for me because she knew how much I had…
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Marshall was right (FGK 268)
Marshall was right (FGK 268)
Mom was funny! I sometimes feel that I missed out on her sense of humour. Maybe our senses of humour were just different. But I get a real kick out of some of these letters. And while she hardly ever sent me letters while I was away, she would send the kids little tokens all the time – little souvenir type things or bookmarks – so that they knew she was thinking of them. And they loved it, they…
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