One of my brothers is a nerd... Ok, they're all nerds, but he flaunts it more. Anyway, he reads this webcomic called XKCD and sometimes it's beyond me. The writer used to work at NASA and plays with physics for fun. Most of the time, though, I get the joke and its the sort of funny that gets you thinking. Wednesday's was especially timely.
It makes me wonder about what sort of celebrity gossip got swapped and dissected over fast food in the Roman Empire, or what forgotten tragedies shaped generations of Suomi. What did sibling rivalry look like in pre-colombian America? How did kimono get to be a Thing?
For me, I'm sad for the stories that aren't here. I could have told you about teenagers and middle school, or the end of our diapering era. There was choir concerts and trumpet shopping, the discovery of a local Christmas festival, our first big road trip and our budding flag magnet collection. I started going to an annual yarn convention and learned how to use a drop spindle. Elena grew at least six inches in the last year. Eli was added to the family. James was discharged from speech therapy but started occupational therapy, and is now getting discharged from that. Lucy has a vast array of invisible friends. Joseph has deep thoughts and a mind that is probably more broken than mine. Jonathan got a job with his dream employer. Pretty much all of us have ADD, apparently.
And I didn't write any of it here. So much history. So many stories. Write it. Write it in detail. And put your soul into it.
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