On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:29:41 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:14:06 -0400, Landon > wrote:
>
>> I thought you all might be interested in both Namey's story and this
>> book.
>
>What a wonderful story!

Thank you sf. I was just thinking, Namey's Mother would have been born
about 1860, right when the US Civil War started.

I wish she could have spoken English. She hardly talked at all and
then only to Namey in her native language. Mostly, she just sat in an
old straight backed chair in the living room. I always thought, man,
she must get bored just sitting there all day every day. Namey said
she didn't really even know where she was really. One day she would
tell Namey to go out and start a cook fire and the next, she'd say the
house was big enough for the entire village to live in. Namey said she
never knew for sure what "time" her Mom was in at any given moment.

I also knew a man who was 100 when I lived across the street from him
as a child of about 6 or 7. He told me stories about when he was a kid
and kept me fascinated. His "first car to ever be seen in his town"
story was a good one. He told me that one several first times.

He said cars were considered a nasty nuisance. Scaring horses,
stinking up the place and making too much noise. No one thought they
would catch on.