It’s about that time

Really don’t know what got me to thinking

Lotta stuff laying around, been laying around for a lot of years

Some of it organized, some of it half organized

Some of it had an idea of being organized

Slowly and perceptively. I have come to understand that at some point

I’m leaving

Mostly I don’t wanna bother the people I’ve left

I’d rather they have pleasant memories of me

Rather than going through a ton of things

Feeling responsible to keep things

So here I am on a Saturday morning mid fall

Trying to develop a coherent presentation of who I was

So tried to minimize the files into importance and alphabetically

A bigger project was to digitize all the photos, so the 40 books we had of pictures

Could be streamed

Tough choices, and other areas had to be made

I had a number of birthday cards or Father’s Day cards

With  very touching and meaningful words

Even  now I don’t know what I’m gonna do with those

I have exceptional paintings done by my sister and wife

Actually I have about six other photographs for wall hangings

That really helped define my life in quotes and images

They’re  not likely to be kept by anyone else as they were my treasured items

Each  of us goes through this individually, I’m quite sure

Some of us want to leave a bit of a personal legacy

So now we ruminate on a cool Saturday morning

I understand I’m starting the final chapter

I do believe pictures will be a more desired option

Than a book that was never written

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