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Wow, haven’t written anything in awhile. Well, let’s fix that.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot. I’ve gotten onto amazon.com and have done a bit more reading. My current read is a book called “The Discipline of Grace” by Jerry Bridges. It’s a very thought-provoking read about God’s grace to us and what our responsibility is towards Him. Right now, I’m midway through chapter 7, really enjoying it. I’m also working on “Theodore Rex“, the second book in Edmund Morris‘ series on Theodore Roosevelt. It about his time as president. I find Theodore Roosevelt a very inspiring person. The way he saw things and acted upon them is different than any other person I’ve ever read about. He seemed to just grab life by the throat and bend it to his will. I can’t imagine what a president like him would be like these days. Imagine if Obama kept a pistol on himself at all times? Or had a pet badger running through the White House? Unbelievable guy. It’s a shame that he couldn’t be around now to interview or something, but I feel like I’m getting to know him through the biographies I’m reading about him. Albert Einstein’s biography by Walter Isaacson (the same guy who wrote Steve Jobs‘ biography) was a great read as well. Really got into his mind on how he saw the world and his Which kinda brings me to my next thought…
My father has been doing a lot of genealogy lately on ancestry.com. He’s traced our family way back, I think all the way back to when our family came to America from Germany, well before the Civil War (he told me we’re somehow related to Abraham Lincoln; pretty nifty). I even ran into another “Fraley” in a store the other day, who it seemed that I was related to as we got to talking, and he claimed that our family had bought some land from Davy Crockett! So many cool stories, all lost to the passage of time.
Got me thinking: will that be the same with all of my stories? My kids will surely remember me (I’ll see to that), but what about their kids? Or their kids’ kids? Will the story of my life simply be forgotten as time goes on?
All my father has of our predecessors are some papers handed down from generation to generation, some death certificates, some pictures of tombstones. He interviewed my great-grandmother awhile back, so he got a lot of good information there. But it’s all bits and pieces. Imagine if he had the whole story…
But we live in a different age now. So, I think a project I want to undertake it to start writing my own biography. I imagine I’ll change a lot as I get older, and I’d like my children to get an idea of who I am now, some of my stories, memories, thoughts on various topics, etc. Some of it I’ll post here, some of it I’ll keep private. But I want to make sure that my descendants are able to look me up one day and get a good idea of who I was. I image I’ll start out as a kind of categorized reverse-journal. I’ll keep it topical (early memories, how Jill and I met, family life, etc) and probably go way off into tangents. But it’ll be fun to look back a little.
