I started this blog back in 2006 I think because, at the time, we, my brothers and I, knew our father, W.B. was at death's door. His death and the next year Joan's, our mothers, and the events surrounding both seemed to have given me or fueled me with some sort of energy that led me, especially in the early phases of this blog, to remember and then recount moments from my childhood and teenage years.
But things have changed. I think about doing a blog entry, and either nothing or too much comes to mind and I don't write anything.
The original energy is not there, and I think it significant that this year the anniversaries of the deaths of Joan and W.B. slipped by me without acknowledgement on the blog. The anniversary of W.B.'s death slipped by me until a couple of days after it has passed. Then I remembered it.
He died February 7, 2006.
Joan died April 10, 2007.
That my blog energy has changed doesn't mean though that I have come to terms with the death of either exactly or my ongoing and changing feelings about them. Freud said the most significant event in a man's if is the death of his father. I don't know that he is right, but even if he is half or a quarter right that would suggest the death of one's father is a kind of defining event, not something easily overcome, resolved, or put in mothballs.
Here are Joan and Bill at the Delridge House in front of the Delridge fireplace. I do remember a time when W.B. sported a mustache. I think this picture was probably taken in the late 80's.
But things have changed. I think about doing a blog entry, and either nothing or too much comes to mind and I don't write anything.
The original energy is not there, and I think it significant that this year the anniversaries of the deaths of Joan and W.B. slipped by me without acknowledgement on the blog. The anniversary of W.B.'s death slipped by me until a couple of days after it has passed. Then I remembered it.
He died February 7, 2006.
Joan died April 10, 2007.
That my blog energy has changed doesn't mean though that I have come to terms with the death of either exactly or my ongoing and changing feelings about them. Freud said the most significant event in a man's if is the death of his father. I don't know that he is right, but even if he is half or a quarter right that would suggest the death of one's father is a kind of defining event, not something easily overcome, resolved, or put in mothballs.
Here are Joan and Bill at the Delridge House in front of the Delridge fireplace. I do remember a time when W.B. sported a mustache. I think this picture was probably taken in the late 80's.
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