Please know that your mom and you will be in my prayers. It was nice to read that you and mom cleared the air and enjoyed one another the last years of her life.
STAY HEALTHY!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
<< <i>Mark , sorry to hear of your loss. Both of my parents are getting very old and one day soon , it will be my turn.
Thank you for sharing the peek into your past. It is what it is. I'm of the belief , that all things serve a purpose in our lives , including our past. You can't change your past , but you can change your future.
Spring will be here soon and hopefully all the good that was there , will overtake and pass the rest. The clouds may pass , then you might have some clear skies .---- Sonny >>
Thank you for your comments everyone.
I have always been a Carl Jung fan (although being almost a twin of my mom I also can't deny Freud some). But I guess I like the Jungian in Sonny's comment and I always find it interesting how various people will reply to "Clear Skies" which I typically end most e-mails and postings with.
Sonny is correct, as we all know, you can't change your past. ( Although, maybe you can't change the future either as that is what will happen, meaning we are more in control of the present.)
I have an unusual past, but nothing I am ashamed of. I left home when I was 15 and did not return for about 3 years. Which means I did not attend high school (although I did later take attend Wichita State University). I got sick real bad a couple times in my late teens and I would be double garnished for most of my 20s for this. The garnishment and a government that decided $250 a semester was good for me led to me leaving school early then I wanted.
But that was alright, I had risen from the bottom to close to the top at work. Then the owner sold out and I went to work for a major catalog center. After helping build their website that when I left was hitting 200 million annually, or more so while I was doing that, I had been working online at home selling sport cards and minerals, whatever. I ended up getting heavy into meteorites and leaving to work full time for myself and that was about 10 years ago. I did really good for a long time and despite being the baby in the family, took on more a fatherly role, like paying for the holidays, dinners in general and helping a family member here and there. Both of my parents overseas in different countries.
I was single, traveling a lot for work (or more kinda work play...since it was meteorites), going to all the big trade shows, making a personal vacation every year and the like. I was getting published a lot and earning various honors and awards (which helped sell more meteorites), served on the board of a a couple non-profits and doing a lot of other various charity work with the meteorite group of people. Like, helping raise money for 9-11 and Katrina. When a tornado hit Greensburg, Kansas a few years ago, I was able to form a little group of people and together we managed to raise over $15,000. I understand this was pennies in the bucket, but we were doing something...I was doing something.
After I bought my house things were different. I changed somewhat I imagine, the ecomony crash, the math just didn't seem to add up, business is dirty at times or can be, and I didn't like that part of it. Like fighting with a local competitor near Greensburg over my charity in the newspapers, or being threated to be sued by the city of Park Forest, IL for a comic me and a former Mad Magazine artist created. Finding myself in disagreement with many moves the non-profit boards I was on was making, always beening the other vote. Maybe, I was just tired of being a public person. I don't know. I have pretty much retired from that life and as I mentioned earlier the past is the past..or how I like to say it, you cant go home. But I digest, and here I am now.
Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards. Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
I read of a man who stood to speak, at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on this tombstone from beginning to the end.
He noted that first came his date of birth and spoke the following with tears. But he said what mattered most of all, was the dash in between those years.
For the dash represents, all the time he spent alive on earth. And how only those who loved him know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own; the cars, the house, the cash, what matters most is how we live and love and how we spend our dash
So think about this long and hard. Are there things you’d like to change? For you never know how much time is left, that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough, to consider what is true and real. And always try to understand, the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger, and show appreciation more, and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect, and more often wear a smile Remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash would you be proud of the things they say and how your spent your dash?
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
My heart goes out to you and your family Mark. I was glad to see that you were able to make up with your mother. I still have both of my parents and can only imagine what you must be going through. One can really never know what to say to someone when they loose a loved one but when my grandfather died 10 years ago, who I was very close to, someone said something to me that helped a little. "Give yourself time to grieve and I promise that eventually you'll be all right and may you joyfully remember the special times that you two had together."
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Condolences to you and your family
Please know that your mom and you will be in my prayers. It was nice to read that you and mom cleared the air and enjoyed one another the last years of her life.
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Lou
<< <i>Mark , sorry to hear of your loss. Both of my parents are getting very old and one day soon , it will be my turn.
Thank you for sharing the peek into your past. It is what it is. I'm of the belief , that all things serve a purpose in our lives , including our past. You can't change your past , but you can change your future.
Spring will be here soon and hopefully all the good that was there , will overtake and pass the rest. The clouds may pass , then you might have some clear skies .---- Sonny >>
Thank you for your comments everyone.
I have always been a Carl Jung fan (although being almost a twin of my mom I also can't deny Freud some). But I guess I like the Jungian in Sonny's comment and I always find it interesting how various people will reply to "Clear Skies" which I typically end most e-mails and postings with.
Sonny is correct, as we all know, you can't change your past. ( Although, maybe you can't change the future either as that is what will happen, meaning we are more in control of the present.)
I have an unusual past, but nothing I am ashamed of. I left home when I was 15 and did not return for about 3 years. Which means I did not attend high school (although I did later take attend Wichita State University). I got sick real bad a couple times in my late teens and I would be double garnished for most of my 20s for this. The garnishment and a government that decided $250 a semester was good for me led to me leaving school early then I wanted.
But that was alright, I had risen from the bottom to close to the top at work. Then the owner sold out and I went to work for a major catalog center. After helping build their website that when I left was hitting 200 million annually, or more so while I was doing that, I had been working online at home selling sport cards and minerals, whatever. I ended up getting heavy into meteorites and leaving to work full time for myself and that was about 10 years ago. I did really good for a long time and despite being the baby in the family, took on more a fatherly role, like paying for the holidays, dinners in general and helping a family member here and there. Both of my parents overseas in different countries.
I was single, traveling a lot for work (or more kinda work play...since it was meteorites), going to all the big trade shows, making a personal vacation every year and the like. I was getting published a lot and earning various honors and awards (which helped sell more meteorites), served on the board of a a couple non-profits and doing a lot of other various charity work with the meteorite group of people. Like, helping raise money for 9-11 and Katrina. When a tornado hit Greensburg, Kansas a few years ago, I was able to form a little group of people and together we managed to raise over $15,000. I understand this was pennies in the bucket, but we were doing something...I was doing something.
After I bought my house things were different. I changed somewhat I imagine, the ecomony crash, the math just didn't seem to add up, business is dirty at times or can be, and I didn't like that part of it. Like fighting with a local competitor near Greensburg over my charity in the newspapers, or being threated to be sued by the city of Park Forest, IL for a comic me and a former Mad Magazine artist created. Finding myself in disagreement with many moves the non-profit boards I was on was making, always beening the other vote. Maybe, I was just tired of being a public person. I don't know. I have pretty much retired from that life and as I mentioned earlier the past is the past..or how I like to say it, you cant go home. But I digest, and here I am now.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
A great poem. Hope you like it.
The Dash, by Linda Ellis:
I read of a man who stood to speak, at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on this tombstone from beginning to the end.
He noted that first came his date of birth and spoke the following with tears.
But he said what mattered most of all, was the dash in between those years.
For the dash represents, all the time he spent alive on earth.
And how only those who loved him know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own; the cars, the house, the cash,
what matters most is how we live and love and how we spend our dash
So think about this long and hard. Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left, that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough, to consider what is true and real.
And always try to understand, the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger, and show appreciation more,
and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect, and more often wear a smile
Remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash
would you be proud of the things they say and how your spent your dash?
be blessed
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
Buying Vintage, all sports.
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Sorry to hear Mark, stay well man.
Dealing with the loss of a loved one is always difficult, but that much more difficult when it is a parent.
Scott