Remember? The Thin Edge of Dignity

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I just spent two hours or so searching the lists of documents for the blogs I’ve written for AARP – they go back to 2013. I wanted to find one in particular that I remember writing in September (or was it August?) I can’t remember.

But, I do remember what I wrote for the first paragraph, and I remember the one sentence second paragraph, which also served as the transition into the title line. The problem is: I can’t remember the title so I can’t find it.

I know it was this year – 2016. And I know I wrote it recently – so it had to be sometime in September. Right? You’d think. So I scroll down this humongous listing of titles and dates – once, twice, thrice, many ices, over and over. None of the titles seem to fit what I remembered to be the theme of the blog.

Yet, I keep looking – one more time. Then another. I repeatedly did the same thing – scrolling down, scrolling back up, more slowly and with greater eye penetration each time. Did I think that it’d leap off the page and hit me in the face and then I’d remember? Sadly, I did. Nothing leapt.

Distraught – and with eye strain and perspiring, I finally stopped. I reminded myself of Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.

How many times could I comb through a listing of titles and dates of the thirty days of September (or was it August?) Definitely not October, because I’m writing this blog-to-be on October 2, and I’ve recently written a series of three blogs on a single theme, which, of course I . . . . Oops. Did I send them into AARP to be posted? I can’t remember. Oy vey! The old hippocampus is slowing down!

And down memory lane – here is a set from George Carlin on losing things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ULNX2k0YbI

 

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