Tag: 1950’s

• Unexpected Memories

  Seventeen years ago today, my older brother Denny, passed away.  It was not a sudden unexpected death but a slow decline with cancer.  His family misses him terribly.  My brother, Dan and I miss him.  I think about him a great deal. We were a family of four boys.  Denny was the second oldest, born…

  patrickjegan

  June 21, 2015

  brothers, Creativity, Family, Ghosts, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, North Country Life, Real Personal History

  1950’s, Adirondacks, balsam scent, baseball, brother, death, family, memory, Mets

• Boy, You’ve Got To Carry That Weight

  It’s been said that the human soul weighs 21 grams. A gram is equal to the weight of a standard paper clip.  So, if you hold 21 paper clips in the palm of your hand, you’re hold what amounts to the heft of an eternal soul…a soul that will spend all of time in eternal…

  patrickjegan

  May 22, 2013

  Holding onto the Past

  1950’s, 21 grams, deleting, email, human soul, smartphones, telephone