Category: Friendship

• Trying To Stay Forever Young

  I’m sitting on the deck of our home at Rainbow Lake.  A lone chickadee hops from branch to branch and then vanishes into the thicket of trees.  I can see the shimmer of the setting sun reflecting from the water below us.  Only patches of the lake can be seen, we need to trim a…

  patrickjegan

  September 18, 2015

  Blogging, Childhood, Friendship, History, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History, seniors, Time

  aging, class of 1965, memories, Owego High School Reunion, owego ny

• Our Appeal To The Great Spirit

  [Source: Google Search] It was the icon of our school. It stood in the large foyer of the Owego Free Academy high school. The title of this equestrian sculpture is Appeal to the Great Spirit.  The artist was Cyrus Dallin and it dates from 1909.  The original bronze statue is at the entrance of the…

  patrickjegan

  September 4, 2015

  Blogging, Childhood, Everyday Events, Friendship, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Objects of Beauty, Real Personal History, Religion

  age, Appeal to the Great Spirit, class of 1965, Cyrus Dallin, death, graduation, hope, Owego Free Academy High School, owego ny, seniors

• Finding Peter

  [Lenny is on the left. Peter is happy to be in Pennsylvania] It was here in the Adirondack Mountains that I walked up to the wall of a ranger cabin.  It was a far off December night, when my heart and body were young.  I had a flashlight in my shaking hand, and read by…

  patrickjegan

  June 30, 2015

  Blogging, Childhood, Friendship, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  bike trips, coming of age, finding lost friends, high school, owego ny, PA, teenage years