Life Changing Event

It seems like a lifetime ago that we were awakened abruptly at 6 a.m. on February 9, 1971 by a full minute of a shaking earth. Anyone who lived in the northern end of the San Fernando Valley that day will, no doubt, remember. At the time it was a matter of making sure the girls were alright and getting out of the house. Earl had left for work almost an hour earlier and there was no way to contact him so we were on our own along with the neighbors.

When he got to work in North Long Beach he was told what happened and immediately grabbed two 5 gallon bottles of water and headed home. Five hours later he came driving in.

It was a time of reassessing our lives. It became one of the watermarks of our life. When you lose a lot of material possessions, no matter how treasured they are, you realize how easily you can live without them and just treasure each other and the things that survived. We were more fortunate than people who experience fires and floods because in retrospect our losses were minimal compared to theirs, but I'm sure the feeling would be the same.

So, in our family today has always been Earthquake Day.

Treasure your family and friends. These gifts from God are the most precious.

Once A Year?

I decided to look at this blog and see what I had written on it and was kind of amazed that I had only written one post last year when I started it. I thought my life was dull, but I don't think it's quite that bad. I just sort of forgot about it, I guess. I think I just use Facebook for my thoughts.

Maybe I should get my act together and put something down occasionally. I should have made a resolution a month ago. Is it too late?

New Blog

I really meant to completely do away with the blogging part of my life, just print out the old stuff from last year and file it away someplace in a drawer and look at it every few years when the drawe got cleaned out, but I have decided to keep on going just in case something actually happens in my life that might be of interest to someone else, namely my close friends or relatives. Sometimes I really want to say more than Facebook lets me.

So here goes, another year has begun and we are all still here checking out each other's lives on computer screens all over the world.

Cheers For A Great 2010,
LN