Thought I'd drudge up some memories for today . . .
This was a photo taken exactly 5 years ago at Juno Beach in Courseulles-Sur-Mer in Normandy. The gentleman in the photo with me was there to remember the time he had come to that beach exactly 63 years prior.
It was a very windy day, and several chairs set up for the D-Day ceremony had blown completely over. Thinking it would make for a good moment of wit, I asked this gentleman (who happened to be nearby as we all noted the chairs), "So how would you say the wind today compares to sixty-three years ago?"
Classic British response: "Well to be perfectly honest I wasn't thinking about the wind at the time."
He was a British engineer who landed at Juno Beach with the Canadians during the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. I never asked him his name, but I'll remember him all the same.
It's a good day for remembering, I suppose.
I totally forgot about how it was June 6th a couple days ago! Completely ignored the D-Day anniversary . . . I feel like that's never happened before and I feel kinda bad about it. It was just a thought I had in my head this morning as I woke up in bed, that "a year ago I was in Europe" and all the thoughts that came after that.
Hehe, like the two girls from Illinois who just came off the train in Bayeaux and asked us, "excuse me, do you guys know how to get to Normandy?"
"Well... you're in Normandy," one of the other guys told them. Ahh, priceless . . . good times, good times . . . that was such an amazing trip and I kinda wish I could do it again right now. Kinda, anyway . . .
. . . other than that . . . . . Batou totally stiffed me in the podcast, ignored my Art Gallery story . . . that's the second time they've done this to me, y'know? It's gonna start hurting my feelings if I suddenly lose my balls or somethin'. On the plus side, though, they legitimized Calaya's position in the top three so it proves I'm not playing favourites to anyone.
Some stuff was mentioned at Adam's blog, and that was kinda exciting.
Finally . . .
We haven't lined up a Tuesday guest poster for the Writers Bloc yet! Any volunteers? Repeat volunteers? Just have a rant you wanna make about writing in general? These don't all have to be lessons and stuff, y'know - editorials are good too! So yeah, someone save us!!!
I think that's about it. Peace.
