Just recently I had dinner with the Riley’s.\u00a0 We were getting together to record\u00a0their personal history.\u00a0 It’s the gift I gave them for their fiftieth anniversary.\u00a0 I want to tell (but more importantly I want to know) their “story”.\u00a0 I don’t want to record the facts of their life, everyone knows that, I want to record their “story”. The behind the scenes, I never knew, aren’t they amazing story.<\/p>\n
Although I aspire to make this part of my Ordinary Legacy work, I wouldn’t endeavor to\u00a0gift something like this\u00a0to people I know causually, we are dear friends and we have had dinner many times before.\u00a0 Our dinners usually include wine, laughter, wit and inuendo, and oh yes a fabulous meal.\u00a0 Whether Jan cooks or I do the meal becomes almost secondary to the excuse of sitting around telling stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our dinners run about four hours long but feel\u00a0as\u00a0if they are over in minutes.\u00a0\u00a0There is rarely a lull in the conversation, there is always something new to talk about. There is eye rolling and cajoling and friendly bickering and heart felt\u00a0explanations of events both past and present.\u00a0 We truly enjoy each other’s company.<\/p>\n
It’s a bit difficult to say goodbye always promising to get together sooner next time and off we go to our very different lives.\u00a0 I won’t let on what I’ve discovered about my friends in gathering their personal history and formulating their story it’s not my place.\u00a0 That will be up to them, suffice to say, they are very interesting people with a wonderful story indeed.<\/p>\n
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Just recently I had dinner with the Riley’s.\u00a0 We were getting together to record\u00a0their personal history.\u00a0 It’s the gift I gave them for their fiftieth anniversary.\u00a0 I want to tell (but more importantly I want to know) their “story”.\u00a0 I … Continue reading