Hello to all of you wonderful people
As has been my custom each year, I’ve tweaked this list a little, having added some lives to my world, and lost some others, and prepared again for April 20th, the day that I got home from Desert Storm now 32 years ago. It’s been my goal every year since then, to pause on that day and thank everyone who has given so much to my life.
Originally, way back in the day, I would just print out a single related image in black and white dot matrix, or a list of people, and just spend some time going through whatever old pictures I could find that would remind me of the people in my world.
Nowadays, the technology has made it easier to reach out, but it is still a difficult thing to make sure I keep up the list of names, add and subtract when necessary, and capture the significance of how I feel about it.
I am humbled going through all the files of pictures, or little bits of memorabilia, dusting off all the memories that have helped make every day of the last 32 years better in one way or the other. I have never had the best memory, which stings a bit given how important my memories are to me, and so I always welcome a chance to relive or retell any bits of my past I’ve spent with some of the truly great people I have met along the way.
So again I say thank you for being in my life, thank you for being there for me, in whatever capacity that is. Thank you for letting me getting to you know you, and for caring enough to know me.
And if you get a chance, and are so inclined, drop me a memory, or a picture, or some hint of how we used to be. I promise I will treasure it as much now as then.
Whatever our relationship was and is, I hope it continues to grow in some way, and I hope that I’ve been able to give back at least some of what you’ve given me. If you get a chance, I recommend you take a pause and look back. Find a person or a moment that helped you get where you are now, and thank them too.
Sincerely as always, I say thank you.
–Steve
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