Don't the days run together when I'm not interacting with any scheduled types of activities.
The Sunday church is available on YouTube, and I can catch the whole thing whenever I want rather than getting up and dressing special (it used to be in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.)
Well there is one weekly thing that I try to work on earlier than Saturday itself...to publish on
Sepia Saturday.
Let's see if I have any old photos that are somewhat linked to this photo. Navy nurses sitting on a rather old jeep, with some strange sign on the building behind them. Does it refer to the base name? I don't even know when this was taken...but it does say Alaska. Mmm. That immediately made me think of something close to my own life. No, I've never been there. But I know people who have!
My friend from 7th grade...
My long time friend, whose father was stationed in Alaska during WW II. He died there, probably in one of the fierce battles against the Japanese in 1942-43. These attacks on American soil were after Pearl Harbor in December 1941 but didn't get as much publicity. I don't know much about it, but there're some details available through Wikipedia...
HERE.
And here are some sepia photos of Alaska.
US Troops in Alaska in 1942-43
Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Another story...another friend from 7th grade...
This dear friend got this shirt and thought it was so funny, back in about 2014 or so. Now Corona beer isn't exactly anyone's favorite to order any more...though it still tastes the same, especially in a bottle with a lime stuck in the neck, but it's just got a bad connotation these days.
I had been a bridesmaid in my friend's (pictured above) wedding in 1961 or so. Then she and her husband went to live in Alaska, where she had both her sons. They spent a while there, in a cabin type rough life, and she remembered it fondly. Yes I did have a couple of photos of her smiling with the children, but couldn't locate them, and they don't really show the wilds of Alaska.
We both enjoyed the TV show "Northern Exposure." She said she had been in the bar that was featured in many episodes, but it was in Washington state, not really Alaska.
AND...my third dear friend and father of 2 of my sons...
I haven't found any photos of my ex husband, who was on isolated duty in Alaska for the US Coast Guard on an Aleutian island, where no women were, nor anything but birds and fish, and supplies were flown in when the weather would allow. It was a LORAN station, watching out for the very close Rusians, after all, it was 1962!
I wrote to him for about a year. I was in Illinois for some of that time, where I'd met him, and then I was as stewardess in Miami FL when he returned and visited me, and well, we fell into love and marriage.
Today's Quote:
When all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers’ keepers. And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst death, chaos, fear, and loss.
REBECCA SOLNIT
