Chaos Seems to Follow

Mark A was over last night to mow the yard. We sure have appreciated his dilligince to this project. I don not think he has missed a single week except for his California trip and he had given as ample warning; it was also hot the grass sort of stopped growing and we got by just fine. Anyway, following we ended up talking for a while. We had a good discussion and he spoke of an issue which seems to plague us ( me and the kids time to time). We tend to be weird to our peers and even other family member from time. I explained to Mark that I don’t believe our weirdness is not intentional and no ( we are not learning disabled as some of our spouses would like to believe) we are not trying to get attention. We just operate at a different frequency or drummer.

We tend not to enjoy organized sporting events, baseball, football ,or basketball etc. Granted Mark went for 10 year sugar fast once but weird or just healthy. We do like getting lost in novels, fantsy games and some poetry. We spent the kids childhood wandering round malls, grocery markets and downtown Salt Lake City. We spent nearly every Saturday together mostly just hanging out. I think we truly loved being together and discussing things. And we could and would discuss everything but usually things mathematical and science. Probably because we were poor then. It was easy to be “rich” in our heads. One of our favorite activities was driving round the avenues ( area of Salt lake where the architecture is very interesting. Beautiful Victorian houses where huge Mormon familes lived, we would sit out front and make histories of our lives if we actually lived in that house. We would describe what Christmas’ would be like or Thanksgiving or Fourth of July’s or cold winter nights with stoked fireplaces and bread baking in the kitchen. Another major event we did as the group on cold dark Saturdays of winter would be to watch Dune or Star Wars videos.

Yes, you could say we were strange—that we truly enjoyed each others company that we liked to read and explore ideas from as many directions as possible.
We, as a group, are scattered now and we do not get the chance to communicate as we once did. We instant message when we can or enjoy long conversations on endless minute cell phone Saturdays. We rarely are able to get together and communicate like we used to. I would like to think our oddness is unique to our group. I think we do gather strength of each other and that sometimes those who maybe close to us sees the level of understanding as weird or strange and perhaps even threatening. It’s just the way we are.

The chaos in my office continues to grow as I move things in from my old office. I have been throwing things as much as I can but still the mess grows. I hope to gain a handle on the mess in the next two days. Stick with me.