Dreaming A Memory

So, since October 17th, everything I know has been told to me, or triggered by a phrase or sight, which caused the retrieval of a memory.  I have thousands of little pieces of memory, unfortunately not linked together by anything nor do I relate to any of them ... they are just stories in my mind.  I realize that these are things which happened but I have no ownership of any of them!

Currently I have pieces of high school life, a little of my initial college years but that is pretty much it.  A single memory from 40 years of a career, random pieces of being a long distance shooter and bits of people I have known.

So, imagine my surprise Sunday night, when I had a real memory!  Albeit, I had a high fever, sicker than a dog and up pops a memory from 2000!  I had flown the kids to Colorado for a meet with those whom I call family, but are not really, a time for my kids to meet their kids (from all over the world!) and just relax for me.  Well, that was the idea anyway.

Now, I have long read about the Georgetown Loop, a 19th century engineering marvel, taking a steam train from Georgetown up the side of a mountain to Silver Plume - roughly a 1:1 grade and impossible!  But, what makes this famous is that the engineers thought outside the box and created a huge circular loop in the air to gain elevation relative to the side of the mountain it was to go up.

Everyone came along, I was paying after all!  I was excited but two of the kids were being real pains in the butt!  Personally, I could not have cared less - it spoke poorly for their parents - but - their attitudes were starting to be copied by my son and that was not acceptable.

So I got into it with the worse behaved of the kids and gave it to her good!

My dream/memory was of that lecture, ending with, " ... now, sit down and shut up!"  Yup, all of the kids froze on the benches and did shut up!  It was a great ride :)

Now, how random is that?!?!?!?  That young lady went on to have a continued respect for me to this day.  I became sort of a surrogate father to her and she often stays in touch, even to the point of Skype'ing me her wedding ceremony last year!  And, my first free memory is of telling her to shut up!  LOL, how utterly weird.

And now, it is at the end of the week, my health is much better and not a single new memory to report!  So, no idea what caused that random memory to occur but it gives me hope that my mind will be restored eventually.

:)