My back went out on me and my desktop computer froze for two days. Life is a bit challenging for me 🙂 when I could not sit long and had no computer to work on my photos… When I was gradually able to get back to normal, sunny days are behind (and ahead), just not today. Life is a Beach, well-said, whoever started this statement.
I have tons of pictures in the library. However, when I have no clue what to write, I would just roll up and down, and come up with nothing. Â I am not a regular Facebook visitor. If I do get online, 5-10 minutes are all that I spent there. I know I must have missed out on lots of friends’ postings, but how would I ever catch up when new postings are rolling in by minutes or even seconds?
Today, a friend’s posting titled “The good old days” inspired me to think of my good old days and prompted me to grab a couple of picture frames to have some fun.
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| 30 years ago |
The girls in the frame of the music box are my two babies who came to America when they were only 9 and 5. Laura only learned 24 alphabet and Shirley was in a kindergarten for a few months. I was a busy working woman in Taiwan, Laura literally self-taught herself the English alphabet by roaming in my office and asking around from office girls. From single knowledge of 24 letters to becoming a 4th grader, it was a dramatic jump in a foreign country, but she made it through successfully. Believe it or not, she was elected to be in a writing contest in her 5th grade, merely her second year here. When she graduated from high school, she was honored in Register-Guard (a local newspaper) as one of the top 8 students in that graduation year.
I took Shirley to work one day. She had to go to the restroom while I was expecting a client’s phone call. I took here there and rushed back to my office. By the time when I finally finished my call, I heard a door knock. Shirley was brought in by the building manager with tears in her eyes. She could not speak a word of English then and the manager figured she must relate to me. When I took her to school the first time, she cried for the whole week. It was quite intimidating for her to be around all ‘strangers’ who speak a language that she knew nothing about. Â However, she immediately became her teacher’s pet. Her middle school teacher even cried when we were leaving California for Oregon.
If I want to point out one pride in my life. These two girls are my pride. I have never been a typical home mother. My world was my business and my office, but they grow up trouble-free and turn out to be the way they are (parents all think their kids are the best, no need for me to say here). Â If I begin to count my blessings, this is Number One.
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| 20 years ago |
If you only have to marry once, you are the lucky one. A failed marriage can cause significant trauma in life. However, hope floats, it rises above all, in high or downtime. In retrospect, I realized how God has led me to the Northwest… I am a Christian and should not talk about fortune-telling. But this one is a bit freaky and I am sharing it just for entertainment’s sake. An educated fortune teller (also a friend) told me that I should live in a place surrounded by trees, “more trees and taller trees are better”, she said.
I knew nothing about Oregon and have never thought about coming here, but now I am living here. How do you explain that? I thoroughly believe that He sent me here because the honest and honorable man He has set aside for me lives here.
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| Â less than 5 years ago |
The grand girl became two years old yesterday. She is our second grandchild. The baby boy in the frame is our first grandchild. He was 6 months old then. It was definitely a life-changing experience to become a grandmother. That 5-year-old girl is now the mother of three adorable children. How can I not feel aches and pains? Â My goal is to keep up with my mental and cope with my physical as I age ‘gracefully’.
To me, the good old days are the time period to be remembered, bitter or sweet.Â
I used this opportunity to play with textures, compositions, and such. I seem to like the last image the best, I purposely put the (picture) frame among the (window) frames. The texture I used is actually a texture that I created myself. OMG. I am so addicted to textures…
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