{"id":473,"date":"2009-06-14T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T04:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-06-15T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T15:43:33","slug":"473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/473\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminisce with me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Confession: I read Reminisce magazine. Cover to cover every time. I have to pace myself so I don’t engulf it all at once. Sometimes I cheat and read from the back… just the small articles, so it\u00a0doesn’t seem like I’m reading ahead.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Which leads me to ask, “Of what value is my craze for the past?” and, “From what source does this interest come?”<\/span><\/div>\n
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As to the value, I guess my nostalgia is part of my character. It’s part of who I am. I\u00a0celebrate small moments.\u00a0I appreciate the details of people’s lives. In addition, my sweet memories are a comfort to me. <\/span><\/div>\n

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During the times when I was sick and in pain\u00a0and during the\u00a03 summers punctuated by surgeries, I retreated to some of those memories and places from my past to get through it all. <\/span><\/div>\n

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I think\u00a0I have always enjoyed the company of my grandparents because I was naturally interested in their past. I truly appreciate the deep friendship I have with my Grandma Ruth. She is the one who surprised me with a subscription to this magazine. I have 30 years worth of letters from her. Once she called me when I was in a bed in the emergency room because she couldn’t stop thinking about me. We tend to gravitate toward each other in our thoughts until one of us decides to just pick up the phone and see what’s going on. Our connection is a blessing to me. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Which leads me to the answer to the next question, “From what source does this interest come?” In truth, the deeper yearning that I have is not for the details of the past, but for the people. And love is a gift of God, and a desire to bless our ancestors is still another gift. Malachi\u00a0promised in the last days\u00a0that\u00a0“[Elijah] shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers” so the earth would not be cursed. This probably means many things, but to me, life is much sweeter, knowing the sacrifices made by my ancestors so I can live as I do. It also helps me want to be more diligent in my temple <\/a>attendance so I can be a blessing to them.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Thanks for stopping by. And if during all my ramblings you have had a chance to reminisce on something happy, good for you! And extra points if you remember buying Smarties lollipops from the pharmacy up the street or a candy shop.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ufeff Confession: I read Reminisce magazine. Cover to cover every time. I have to pace myself so I don’t engulf it all at once. Sometimes I cheat and read from the back… just the small articles, so it\u00a0doesn’t seem like I’m reading ahead. Which leads me to ask, “Of what value is my craze for … Continue reading Reminisce with me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}