38 Lunness: The Early Years

 It is Thursday April 4, 2022. The pandemic is... depends upon the voice you choose to listen to. 

THE EARLY YEARS

We move to 38 Lunness Rd in Alderwood in 1948. I was 13 months at the time, so that would be June.

I moved out of 38 Lunness in August 1968 when I was married and moved to Mississauga.

I remember little of the first four years there. Flashes of a cocker spaniel  called Blondie, pop up when I travel back . Blondie was my Aunt Eileen and Uncle Bill's dog. They lived with us for a bit, I think.

I do recall the daughter of our only neigbours when we first moved into 38, the Sandfords. Though I do not recall her name. She was older than I but I was also her only child companion,

There are several reasons I began this project. One is to work my mind and memory. The work is working. More to come, stay connected,,,

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The Pandemic

 The inspiration for 38 Lunness arrived just before the Covi-19 pandemic was announced. Two years later the book has shifted but still evolving. The inspiration that provoked the book is connected to my father...

Three AM.

 ..."medication, when I sensed a calming presence. I looked up. It was three am. Jocelyn was quietly sleeping.

 There a few feet away was my father, Sydney Edwin Ewing, simply watching me.

Wonder and calm flowed through me like a gentle breeze caressing the trees. 

An awareness broke free as appreciation and understanding momentarily flooded my mind." from 38 Lunness

1952

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Top Songs 1964

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Alderwood Collegiate Institute.

Six years at Alderwood Collegiate (ACI) simply because geometry did not like me. Year two and geometry was gone. Replaced by the New Math.  

I had an 8 or 8:15 slot for this New stuff, I think. I was used to getting to school at that time because a few of my teachers determined I was detention material. They were right. I made good use of that time. more coming in 38 Lunness.

Mom and the Rat

 One day, when I was still in my carriage, as Mom told the tale,  I was outside close to the backdoor where Mom could watch me through the kitchen window, Scrappy, our dog, began barking.

Scrappy rarely barked but that is another story. Mom looked out the window and saw Scrappy grab a rat that was climbing up my carriage,  When Mom got outside, the dog was shaking that rat around. 

I loved that dog.