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When I first moved to where I live now, my neighbours had 4 young children.
As of yesterday, 3 of them are married with the youngest one in college.
While I am very happy for Luke and Morgan (married yesterday), instead of seeing a 6' 4" man, in my minds eye I still see a young child with his sister putting ice cubes on their driveway to see which one melts first.
As a child, I didn't believe people when they said time flies; now, it seems to be travelling faster than the speed of light.
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I know the feeling - when we moved in, the kid next door was teething.
Now he's taller than me, and on the rare occasions he stops moving you can watch him grow...
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Tim Carmichael wrote: instead of seeing a 6' 4" man, in my minds eye I still see a young child
I think that's one of the harder things about being a parent -- the constant readjustment needed when seeing you kid. From their perspective it must be weird too as they grow up and their perception of you as a parent changes.
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It is even more dramatic being a grandfather seeing one set of kids every 6 months and the other once a year. It feels like one of those stop motion shows where someone has removed half the cards.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's crazy isn't it.
I try not to think about it too much.
"So and So (who was a little tyke just yesterday)is getting married"
"Hu" That's nice.
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My next door neighbor (70+) has seen my children grow. He requests status updates when we meet at the fence (usually doing yard work)...
Seems like yesterday I helped deliver my daughter, yesterday, I walked her down the "aisle" and trusted her life to a fine young man.
<sniff> it just hit me again.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Tim Carmichael wrote: As a child, I didn't believe people when they said time flies; now, it seems to be travelling faster than the speed of light.
You raised an interesting idea, whether it was intentional or not.
According to Google (well, NASA), "...space and time are really aspects of same thing--space-time. There's a speed limit of 300,000 kilometers per second (or 186,000 miles per second) for anything that travels through space-time, and light always travels the speed limit through empty space."
In other words, to get back to your observation, time and light would actually travel at the same speed.
How's that for hijacking a thread? 
But yeah...I know exactly what you mean. My sister's ex is 6' tall, and my nephew's taller than I am at the age of 13.
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SUNRISE SUNSET tells it all. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Once upon a time, in my youth and ignorance, I actually enjoyed that scene. Now, it just reminds me of the carnage caused by private banks (e.g. Federal Reserve) and the cause of most major conflicts today.
modified 8-Oct-17 13:06pm.
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May I ask how you connected between a wedding scene, private banking, and contemporary major conflicts?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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To understand you would have to start with knowing who Paul Warburg and Bernard Baruch are, the history of the Federal Reserve and a few other 'tidbits' of similar information such as the magnitude of western debt and and the root causes of this debt. Then you would have to know who a few other names such as Kimberly Kagan and Frederick Kagan. Then you would have to know a bit of the history of propaganda in western societies. At that point my point would start to become clear.
Cheers,
Ian
modified 9-Oct-17 0:44am.
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Kagan? Or Fagin? 
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A: You've convinced me. All the problems of the world are caused by the Jews and the bicycle riders!
B: Why the bicycle riders?
A: Why the Jews?
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: the bicycle riders
Er... what do we have to do with the price of avocados in Denmark?
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Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'...
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Just have to fly. Like an eagle.
/ravi
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Tim Carmichael wrote: As a child, I didn't believe people when they said time flies; now, it seems to be travelling faster than the speed of light.
Very true, Tim. I now treat time as a precious commodity.
/ravi
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There are lot of unexpected things about growing older, but what you describe is one of the most disconcerting. It gets even more so when you haven't seen the childhood friends of your kids since they were kids.
On the other hand, my granddaughters are the light of my life.
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In the (Broadway) musical there's a song that expresses this so beautifully:
"Sunrise, Sunset"[^]
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Love that song... my daughter is 12, feels like I need to start singing it...
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I'm surprised, always thought the police there were on horseback and wore red jackets.
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Growing up in Canada, hockey was played at the neighbourhood outdoor rink. We had one about 100 yards up the road. Around November, the boards (sheets of plywood framed with 2x4s were stood up and connected to form the sides. Then, when the weather consistently dropped below freezing, a water hose was hooked up, pulled out and turned on... the rink was 'flooded'.
After that water froze, someone would use their truck with a plow to level the ice. Repeat a few more times... and the rink was ready to use.
If it snowed, plow again, flood, plow... play.
Then, someone decided it was too cold/hard to play outdoors and 'organized' leagues moved indoors... and hockey became too expensive for most people - it became a game of the 'haves' rather than the 'have nots'.
In a city of 55,000 people, there was only one indoor rink, so games were scheduled around the clock.
And police in red serge? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police where the red jacket uniform for formal occasions.
If you get a chance to see the RCMP musical ride, it is worth the price of admission.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: If you get a chance to see the RCMP musical ride, it is worth the price of admission.
I now have a mental picture of a felon, sitting in the backseat of a police car, thinking ot himself, "musical ride, my ass"
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