does it drive you nuts not to be able to remember these things more clearly? Both my parents are dead--I am utterly on my own as far as reconstructing my distant past is concerned.
Yup. And Mom's alive, but Dad's dead so I've lost about half the memory-reconstructing engine there. The letters are a great help, at least, and I'm happy that I found the one that details our burglary because it was bothering me that all I remembered of the things that were stolen were the sheets and towels.
*racks brain for more Big Cat stories*
I remember my dad telling me once that he was driving along in the Land Rover, arm out the window, and he came upon a spot where some trees overhung the road. He saw a leopard sprawled out on a branch in one of them, and as he drove very slowly under the tree, he rolled the window up. He tells me that the leopard looked him in the eye as he did so, and very clearly said "If I'd have wanted you, I'd have had you." And Dad wasn't one for anthropomorphizing animals, so that's pretty impressive, and a testament to the sheer presence of leopards.
"anthropomorphism" was Sara's party trick word when she was three--in just about exactly that context. "What do you call it when people pretend lions can talk like humans?"
go ahead and delete all these utterly irrelevant comments without offending me, if you so choose...
I'm impressed - I didn't learn "anthropomorphism" until I was in second or third grade, when I was in a gifted & talented class and we were challeneged to bring in hard words. I don't remember anything I brought in, but someone else brought that one in and we learned it. XD
I don't mind irrelevant comments - conversation digress. I don't mind having people carry on an unrelated covnersation with each other in my journal, either - it's like I'm throwing a party and I'm listening in on their conversation.
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I will pass that story on, too. We love Big Cats.
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*racks brain for more Big Cat stories*
I remember my dad telling me once that he was driving along in the Land Rover, arm out the window, and he came upon a spot where some trees overhung the road. He saw a leopard sprawled out on a branch in one of them, and as he drove very slowly under the tree, he rolled the window up. He tells me that the leopard looked him in the eye as he did so, and very clearly said "If I'd have wanted you, I'd have had you." And Dad wasn't one for anthropomorphizing animals, so that's pretty impressive, and a testament to the sheer presence of leopards.
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(have I said that before?)
"anthropomorphism" was Sara's party trick word when she was three--in just about exactly that context. "What do you call it when people pretend lions can talk like humans?"
go ahead and delete all these utterly irrelevant comments without offending me, if you so choose...
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I don't mind irrelevant comments - conversation digress. I don't mind having people carry on an unrelated covnersation with each other in my journal, either - it's like I'm throwing a party and I'm listening in on their conversation.
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the new party trick word is "spontaneous," as in, "Mark, that burp was only funny the first time, when it was SPONTANEOUS"