One of the things that I think we are sad for when loosing a dear friend or even a loved one due to illness or some other tragedy is that seeing your friend in a box about to be buried is that it makes you stop and take inventory of yourself and your life. Thinking of all the would’ves Could’ves Should’ves. What if I had not done this or that, what if’s are all of a sudden thrust onto your biological H-U-D and you begin to think. Although if much of what I’m going to reflect here this morning is repetitive and all, even that if some of this history had not taken place I would not be here at this funeral today,still it needs to be said.
If in 1969 Mom & Dad, had just flat outright sold the ranch in Hagerman , if we had never moved here and built that house on the hill, had Mom & Dad ignored the advanced learning center at HHS, and we had stayed in Layton, Utah. Mom & Dad retired from Military duty there, several things would have been different. First I would have completed High School there at Layton High School, not just settled for a GED. If Mom & Dad stayed in Layton, I’d have no doubt married my school sweet heart , Peggy, enlisted years earlier in the Marines, and no doubt would have never got into trucking, towing, turning a wrench , but most likely be a helluva lot more in the media, either as a radio personality, or somewhere technical in television. The Knytes would have never been formed, and a helluva lot more things, from NICH, to PCS, to many other physical ailments that I live with today, much more too income I’d be making. While I deeply forgive Mom & Dad, for that grave decision they made back then, I still hold a grudge. Why couldn’t we have just stayed in Layton? Mom & Dad’s estate would have been even greater, their health would have lasted much longer, maybe even still be around. I took inventory earlier this morning of how much I did, Mom & Dad, did for many in this tragic valley, the gifts both in time, energy and money gave too so many, and yet, now that I need a bit of a hand up its few and far between. If I get any help at all. We all have our cross’s to bare, we all have the memories both good and bad of things past, and while I in fact do forgive, the verse in the Holy Bible of , “ Thou Shalt not hold a grudge,” unfortunately I do.
Need sleep, big day today.
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Quote of the day:
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. - H. L. Mencken
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