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Memories

29/04/2008 by Nikita

 

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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

Memories

What kind of memories flash through your mind if I  ask you about your childhood?… I think we all have some wonderful memories which we cherish in our minds or even some in our hearts. Sometimes we like to keep a diary of memories, that diary can either be a concrete book or a diary in our memory. If you were asked what was the best of your childhood years, what would that be?  Well, for me, it would be a very difficult question as I have such sweet memories of my childhood-years on the farm where I grew up. Apart from family gatherings, which I want to exclude in this post, I want to mention a couple which I really cherish since the day I left the farm and these are cemented in my memory. I’ve done a post about memories almost six or more months ago, but I know I haven’t mentioned this in particular. On the farm, we used to take the cattle…about every other month to a neighbouring farm where two other farmers also gathered with their cattle. The reason for this was to dip the cattle to  eradicate  external parasites and ticks. If you don’t know what I’m talking about..have a look at this image. You can see a ramp where the cow walks and then  slowly enters the water when reaching the end of the ramp…most of the time the center of gravity changes and they “fall” into the water –  which has got some chemicals in – and once in the water, they submerge and keep “swimming” or “splashing” to the other end. This was always great fun for us kids to watch… and best of all to watch…was the little calves… once they submerged and emerged again…the minute they “fall” in the water…we moved as close as possible to see them emerging again…we thought it was cute to see them in the water, swimming. The animals were used to it and they sort of “jump” themselves as if they knew what to do. Dipping-day was great fun…how I miss that! Secondly… I do miss walking in the veld where I used to collect all sorts of dry little twigs – not just any…the beautiful and special twigs …. and wild grass. At home I would then arrange these dry grass and dry twigs in a beautiful arrangement. I used to collect different dry grass and tried to find their scientific names…which was hard when I was a child as there wasn’t any Internet!  I wonder if farmers still dip their cattle today and if there are newer and more modern ways to do it with large herds of cattle.
Read HERE MORE about memory…short term memory….long term memory….
The movie from youtube is about memories…see if you can follow the line of this story…

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Enjoy this video by Elvis….one of my favourites! …and thanks to Dan for the link!


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Posted in Animation, dipping cattle, education, General, long term memory, memories, piano movie, piano story, short term memory | Tagged Animation, dipping cattle, education, Elvis Presley, long term memory, memories, memory movies, memory quotes, music videos, piano movie, piano story, short term memory | 4 Comments

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  1. on 30/04/2008 at 19:24 Dan

    Don’t know if this will work here, but if it doesn’t go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jixwY9t3Uso


  2. on 30/04/2008 at 19:54 Nikita

    hi Dan..thank you for the link! It’s up on my blog now!


  3. on 01/05/2008 at 19:24 Dan

    My niece was recently in a production of Cats, from which the song in your last video is taken.

    Barbara Streisand also recorded another song about ‘memories’ although the title is acutally “The Way We Were.” She also starred in a movie of the same name.


  4. on 01/05/2008 at 19:26 Dan

    I might add that this is my favourite song of all time.



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