{"id":1581,"date":"2017-11-11T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:20:22","slug":"my-life-in-a-shoebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/my-life-in-a-shoebox\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life In a Shoebox"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1581-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2018\/02\/DW-Life-in-a-shoebox.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2018\/02\/DW-Life-in-a-shoebox.mp3\">http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2018\/02\/DW-Life-in-a-shoebox.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Here in North Texas the seasons change overnight. And then they change back again. A couple of days ago we hit 94 degrees. Today we\u2019re going to stay in the 40s. Next month or next week we might have snow, then back to 85 for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Texas is famous for it and I love the variety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">We all mark the passing of time with changes in the weather. If it never changed we would seem to be living the same day over and over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">And yet&#8230; the days and years of our lives often seem to change like calendar pages flying off the screen to show passage of time in old movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">You know what frustrates me? I can\u2019t remember everything. The past 66\u00a0 years are written on my brain in fuzzy black and white memories like the photographs of my childhood. They\u2019re all mixed up in my shoebox of a brain. I sort through them from time to time and while I can usually remember a relative few specific places and people the entire experience of my life is mostly conjecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">I figure young people of today will have the opposite problem. When they\u2019re my age they\u2019ll be sorting through hundreds of thousands of pictures of cats and babies they once knew and meals they once ate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Making sense of your life is as hard as predicting it<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">60, 70, 80\u00a0 years\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">It sounds so long but it lives so fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in North Texas the seasons change overnight. And then they change back again. A couple of days ago we hit 94 degrees. Today we\u2019re going to stay in the 40s. Next month or next week we might have snow, then back to 85 for a couple of days. 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