-being a child. But I know from whence this derives. I want someone to take care of me; mostly to tell me things will be alright.
-my grandmothers. They were two different women: I enjoyed both of them.
-records and record players; both 45rpm and the 33rpm types. It was fun to spin a song on a small record player. I liked records more for the covers – they allowed far more detail and art on the jackets.
-summers between levels of education; they were “to spend” and they were endless then.
-my college days – when I felt I could go and do anything given so much potential and possibilities. (I also miss learning things other than job related matters).
-Sinclair dinosaur soap – we got them when we filled up on gas. These green lovelies are going now for major bucks on Ebay, so one doesn’t use them for bath time now.
-our two cats. I miss having a pet, something that looked forward to me waking up and coming home.
-Midwest weather, especially the thunderstorms and the blizzards.
-several bloggers. They sometimes just stopped writing without word and did not return emails of enquiry to their well being.
-my mentor from residency. We would meet for breakfast once a week and discuss cases. He was one of the more brilliant analysts. I wish I wrote down everything he ever said.
-road trips to Wisconsin with the Best Friend. These trips had all sorts of long talks. And the official music for the ride was ABBA.
-gardening, playing the piano, genealogy, and drawing. They have dried up with lack of time.
What do you miss?
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April 15, 2008 at 7:07 am
BID
I miss having a teenage figure.
April 15, 2008 at 7:50 am
Lemuel
Being a child, grandmothers, records, summers, college days, missing bloggers (Larry, Maggie, MQB, among others) , time for hobbies. O how you are pressing my wistfulness buttons this morning, Spo!
April 15, 2008 at 8:05 am
Cameron
Seeing those records reminded me of a very early childhood memory — being fascinated by the records which came in different translucent colors. I loved the blue ones and the red ones the best; I remember looking through them towards the sunlight outside my bedroom window and being transported to a different world.
April 15, 2008 at 9:26 am
Mark H
Thanks for reviving kid memories that I might miss……. a silly one came to mind. As the “baby” in the family, when the oldest one moved out, I graduated to a bed of my own….it was in the basement, around in the back close to the house furnace. Somehow that isolated quiet spot was always security to me. Seems that little in today’s world is secure…. I guess I miss that feeling.
April 15, 2008 at 11:13 am
Coco
I miss my parents…
I miss being a “child”…
I miss being “carefree”…
Nostalgia…(sigh)
Hugs & Blessings
April 15, 2008 at 11:26 am
Pink
being a child, my mom, my grandmothers, being in love, being skinny, being young enough not to groan when I exert a great deal of effort, being promoted on the basis of merit and not on the basis of who likes you, living in new york city, having a healing practice, practicing yoga, singing kirtan on friday nights, my friend Alicia, my friend Tanya, my friends period, feeling excited about work, being paid enough to enjoy a few luxuries without going into my savings or debt to get the luxuries to keep me sane, being in shape, having my whole life before me and a sense that anything is possible.
I miss cheerful and cheeky Spo, but everything has its season…so perhaps this is the season of a little bit of light blue.
xx
pinks
April 15, 2008 at 2:11 pm
sortedlives
I think I miss the most is life was much simpler. No cell phones, 1000 tv channels. As a kid, I played OUTSIDE and used my IMAGINATION to have fun. I didn’t have to worry about drugs, guns, and violence as we see it today. I know as a society we have grown, but children today know way more than I ever knew at a young age. I don’t envy them.
April 15, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Java
I miss the childhood innocence of not having to worry about the details of life. Did I remember to pay the utility bill? What are we going to eat for supper tomorrow? Do the kids have clean clothes to wear tomorrow, or do I need to do more laundry? (I always need to do more laundry!) I miss having all the time in the world to read the books I want to read.
Yes, I want someone to tell me everything will be alright. And I want the innocence to believe it.
April 15, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Seamus
~smiles~
I miss my Grandmother. One day I’ll get up enough nerve to do a post on her. She was an amazing woman.
I don’t miss vinyl records because I still have thousands of them here. I love converting the music to digital… (it makes me feel important… LOL) Many are still not available on CD so… I use them on the radio show sometimes…
Here’s a muxtape. Just click and it should play.
Everything IS going to be alright…
April 15, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Merri
I do miss being a university student; those were fun years..(even though we had no money, it didn’t seem to bother us MUCH..lol)
I miss some kinds of candy( Pascall’s =english ) that I loved and the company disappeared..
I don’t miss being a kid though; life was too uncertain..
April 15, 2008 at 5:38 pm
rodger
Mostly, my mom. Yeah, she passed when I was only 24 and I miss not having the opportunity to know her as an adult.
On a happier note…I really miss floating popsicle stick boats in the rapids (gutters) along the neighborhood streets during the spring rains. They’s have to maneuver numerous obstacles before finally flowing over the falls (sewer grate) to their demise.
What ever happened to those streams of imaginary fancy?
April 15, 2008 at 6:13 pm
deveil
I loved this post. I sure miss my grandma’s too. In the recent move I found some old vcr tapes where I had interviewed my grandmother’s. I laughed and cried for hours.
April 15, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Maddog
I miss grad school, and being skinny. Oh, and being young.
April 16, 2008 at 3:53 am
Diederick
My grandparents’ old place. They had this farmhouse; which was really a museum, not a farm; with lots of land, chickens, an old well, and many other stuff I thought was fantastic as a kid. I spent a lot of my childhood there, and a piece of me died off the day the museum board decided it was time for expansion. The orchard, the chickens, the well, everything was gone when the new building arrived.
I still have both of those grandparents, my grandmother has been fighting a brain tumor for about a decade now, but she’s doing really good.
April 16, 2008 at 5:05 am
valown
I to miss those long childhood summers with nothing to do but use your imagination. I also miss going on summer trips to visit my grandparents in Texas. Those were always an adventure in a good way. I miss being in a band, performing, and writing music. I hope to take that up again soon, at least the writing part. Ironically, I was just talking to N about missing albums yesterday. Album covers were an art form in themselves. I still have my turntable and all of my albums, including some of my moms of 1950’s west coast jazz. This was a Great post.
April 16, 2008 at 7:26 am
Doug
I had the 33 of “The Wizard of Oz” with a double-jacket. I donated all my records about 10 years ago, and I miss that one.
Mostly, right now, I miss motivation. Vague and tenuous, but essential. I can’t tell if I ever really had it or if I was just fulfilling others’ ambitions for me.
April 16, 2008 at 3:16 pm
jason
I miss a lot of things and mostly people, but one thing I miss is the sheer pleasure I got from the most mundane things: collecting rocks, building little citiies of mud, climbing trees, reading the encyclopedia, writing (bad) poems, picking up fallen leaves…..
and sometimes thankfully, that pleasure rises back up unexpectedly.
It’s (I hope) dormant, not dead.
April 16, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Stuart
My first puppy dog, Sugarspot.
April 20, 2008 at 2:47 am
zeph
Things will never be alright. Probably, they will be all right, however.
April 21, 2008 at 8:08 am
Steven
So many memories that I can relate to. But I also miss spinning my 78 rpm’s.
I don’t know if I ever had one, but remember playing the 33’s or 45’s at 78 rpm and pretend it was Alvin and the Chipmunks singing. I would have to reiterate what Sorted said above. I definitely miss the “simplicity of life.” I miss the university life and the marching band. I miss being in love. 
April 23, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Tony
I miss you bud!!! Sorry I never got back to you re: Palm Springs. I hope you had a good time with Doug. Some things are a bit rough with work tight now and trying to start his new business. the finances are running tight.
Do stay in touch please. I just don’t think I will be blogging anytime soon.