As we age, remembering events in our lives is
what old folks such as I do most every day. To
stimulate time and place in my past life, I am
fortunate to have taken many photographs
highlighting people and places I have known.
I have arranged my thoughts into epochs, periods
of time defining the when, where and why of my
illustrious history. For example: My Army days
were from November 1964 through November
1967; I was married to my first wife with whom
I had two children for 17-years from 1966 to
1983; I lived in Albuquerque from 1991 into
1992; I moved to Denver in 1992, married my
second wife in 1993 and lived there until 2015
a year after she died...and on and on.
Of course there are other dates and events I
have compartmentalized where I moved about,
changed jobs and such. I won’t go into
the gory details here and bore you with my
addictive drug and alcohol binges and
various rehab and therapy episodes.
Suffice it to say, when I have my mental
journeys into the past nearly seventy-five
years of my life, I can pretty well define
where I was chronologically at any given
time.
Needless to say, this process gives me a
framework for how far I have advanced or
digressed over the years. Now of course
I am not 100% pin-point accurate all the
time. But as an old friend of mine use to
say: “Like horse shoes and hand grenades,
close is good enough.”
At least in my mind’s eye, the when, where
and why of the real me is not hard to find.
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Chris Hanch 12-5-2021
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