{"id":523,"date":"2013-04-12T23:32:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2022-09-28T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:01:12","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/12\/time-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peggy and I are back in Lake Charles this weekend. We just decided we needed to get away for a couple of days, and nothing helps Peggy relax like endless hours by the pool followed by endless hours in front of a slot machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am up in our room at the hotel — a suite this time due to L’Auberge largesse — and a picture popped up on my computer from ten years ago. Here is the picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cowardly Lion takes his bows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a picture from my son’s eighth grade play (yes, that makeup and costume were created by eighth-graders — unbelievable). The show was incredible and he was even incredibler. Truly the king of the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It got me started thinking about how quickly time passes. When that picture was taken, my mother had been dead for less than a year. Peggy’s parents both attended the production. A little over two years later her father would pass away. Her mother is now dealing with Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We lived in the same town we live in now but in a different house. We moved into our house that summer, so we have been living in our house for almost ten years. I have never lived in a house that long in my entire life. I have changed employers twice since this picture was taken. My son has graduated from LSU and is now three years into his professional life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember every detail of that play. Peggy was the choreographer, so she and Mike were at rehearsal for hours. I would sneak up to the school to watch them both work. Mike was running track at the same time, so I would take him to the meets and then we would hustle back to the school for rehearsals. It just doesn’t seem possible that it was ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week I was scanning old photographs of our lives, but I didn’t come across this one from the play — most of the pictures I was looking at were much older. It is even harder to believe how long ago those<\/em> memories took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time truly flies. We must be having fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beautiful day at the pool before the compulsive gambling. She sure doesn’t look ten years older!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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