I started jotting down short notes on my small notebook (the one with the paper with lines kept together by a white coil spring) sometime in 1996. And on April 8, 1996 I started jotting down these notes on my computer. The entry: "April 8, '96 Monday Back in shop. A lollipop. U2's "Stay" song." Nothing interesting there. Just things I considered as gifts or blessings or just something I wanted to remember. And everyday for the next decade I jotted down notes I felt was important to me for the day. I still used a notebook to jot down on the fly daily stuff since it is hard to remember at day’s end all the things that happened during the day. Then I ended up using a Palm II. Then I lost, on a system crash, a week’s worth of files. I went back to my small coil-held notebook for the next couple of years. Then a cell phone feature arrives, “Notes”. I have used this ever since to jot down my daily “ipisnippets”. IPIS for Insignificant Pieces of Information and Stories. SNIPPETS for snippets. By the way, Ipis means cockroach too. We don’t care for them yet they disrupt our lives once they make themselves aware to us. And as I heard somewhere, they’re the only creatures that will survive a nuclear holocaust. I’m blogging now to hopefully make my ipisnippets survive from system crashes and other modern digital disasters via the protection of Google Inc. Almighty.
NOW, I commit to “posting” / jotting down snippets, that I hope will, at the minimum, elicit a smile from my dearly beloved. I am particularly inclined to post children quips because these are the purest, funniest and loveliest. I will be sharing my children’s quips from this day onward. Occasionally, I will pull snippets from my decade worth of files where nephews’, nieces’, friend’s children’s quips, quotes, questions and stories have been graciously shared to me. I was planning to share these quips still years from now when the children are all grown up. But I guess NOW is the time to celebrate their youth. It is time to appreciate them today.
A wise philosopher once said, “To be truly a man (woman) we have to go back to our child’s heart.” Children’s thoughts, insights, questions and quotes will help us rediscover ours. From their purity we will rediscover and then recover.
NOW, I commit to “posting” / jotting down snippets, that I hope will, at the minimum, elicit a smile from my dearly beloved. I am particularly inclined to post children quips because these are the purest, funniest and loveliest. I will be sharing my children’s quips from this day onward. Occasionally, I will pull snippets from my decade worth of files where nephews’, nieces’, friend’s children’s quips, quotes, questions and stories have been graciously shared to me. I was planning to share these quips still years from now when the children are all grown up. But I guess NOW is the time to celebrate their youth. It is time to appreciate them today.
A wise philosopher once said, “To be truly a man (woman) we have to go back to our child’s heart.” Children’s thoughts, insights, questions and quotes will help us rediscover ours. From their purity we will rediscover and then recover.
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