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It Just Doesn't Take as Much

I can easily remember when, as a kid, it took a lot to entertain me...I was always wanting to do something a little more exciting. Growing up on a farm just didn't always do it for me :).

I loved my family, loved the people there in the Oldtown community in Calhoun County, MS...and loved my friends and school friends...but I was always wanting MORE to be happening.

I just returned from a week there in that same location in North MS....funny, the things I now have "warm fuzzy" memories of are those times when little happened to entertain me that resembled what I craved as a kid.

I loved just driving around....visiting Ellard Mountain and the rock :), singing to the top of my lungs with Scarlett and Vern and Jimmy as we drove to visit Jimmy's sister in Tupelo, hugging necks and eating and visiting with my cousins at the Clark reunion, shooting fireworks (some good ones, too) on the evening of July 4th...being thankful all the while for my freedom as a citizen of the United States of America. How neat to become reacquainted with Becky and Shirley from high school days as we laughed and cried a tear or two together in that Oxford restaurant. Dozens of other memories are there today...and they're basically along the same lines....just the things that make life worth looking back on as being a part of the stability of our society..when there's loads of instability all around us.

I think my days of wishing for MORE and MORE are over (oh, I still have dreams LOL).

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