Tag: memory

• 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

• On a Night Like This

  ‘I remember it was on a night very much like this…’ —Words spoken around 10,000 campfires by a billion storytellers for a million years. I found myself staring at the clouds drifting slowly past the quarter moon.  In these early days of autumn, it should be  a little cooler, but it was a mild evening.…

  patrickjegan

  October 3, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, Fables & Folklore, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, Nature, non-fiction, North Country Life, Real Personal History

  autumn, brick pond, campfires, docks, fables, friends, lakes, legends, memory, sparks, spring, story, storytellers, summer, winter

• The Thing in the Claw Foot Bathtub

  Go ahead, think of a childhood dream.  Make it a cuddly, warm and fuzzy dream where someone you love is with you adoring you and keeping you safe.  It’s a nice feeling, isn’t it…recalling that dream?  You awoke in the morning with pleasant thoughts that stayed with you throughout the day.  Now, think of a…

  patrickjegan

  November 15, 2012

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  back rooms, dead pigs, dreams, frozen pigs, ghosts, memory, nightmares, old houses