Beneath the Wraps

                I have boxes of tax files and insurance policies, receipts, warranties and so forth.   I have memorabilia, started scrapbooks, sooooo many photos.   Lesson outlines and lesson ideas.   And I’ve gotten rid of a lot.   So why does it feel like all the paperwork keep growing?           I don’t have to save any of it right?   Aside from all the tax detail, insurance policies and so forth, most of this could just be obtained from online, right? So why the heck am I saving it?   As Jaime has never been as sentimental as I am, I am certain that she would not care if I threw out all that I’ve been saving instead of having her go through it and throw it away.             And the pictures.   Oh my gosh.   There are so many pictures.   I have scanned all of the pictures – I think.   So why am I h...

          There have been multiple posts in which I have referred to treasures of the past.   I had six boxes of memorabilia which I had left behind in West Valley.   I really thought that we would have returned to Utah long before we did.   I thought we would return in a large rental car and I’d be able to retrieve my boxes.   I wasn’t thinking logically.        Meanwhile my sister had gone to the West Valley house to retrieve my six boxes – which she kept in her house for at least a couple of years.   When we finally returned to Utah it was for Jen’s funeral.   We had reserved a rental car, but it wasn’t available when we went in to pick it up.   Five other customers were also waiting.   I didn’t even know what position we were in.   We ended up driving back in the Saturn.   We barely had room for a luggage – no room for boxes or souvenirs.        ...

                  As I have been reading the scriptures I wondered where I had misplaced my personal scripture blessing.  I used to look at it often but realized I probably haven ’ t looked at it since we have lived in Oregon.  It isn ’ t where I thought it was.         I found some “ artifacts ” and a letter addressed to my posterity about the contents of my pink ammo can.   What possessed me to paint it pink?   I don ’ t even like pink.   But at the time I didn ’ t appreciate the drab green although I think I prefer it to the pink that appears to be older than it is.           The note was written September 6, 1988.   I claimed that I had left a camera cassette which isn ’ t there but there is a VHS and the contents are the same as what is descrbed for the Minolta.   I suppose I could include another camera cassette but with di...

        At the time  I was enrolled in seminary, there was a program for students who had the desire to participate in afterschool programs of challenging seminary students from other schools in what came to be known as "The Seminary Bowl"         Seminary Bowl included a panel of students trained to answer questions relating to that year's gospel topic.  There was also the "scripture chase" on which team could find a certain scripture the quickest.  Each week (or however often we met) our instructors would give us ribbons featuring our school color.  On the ribbon was marked in letters that started each word of different scriptures;  one made up for a certain scripture that we should have memorized that week         I had saved them all in a scrapbook.  I think it might have been the one that grandpa had given me; one that fell apart, one that I had attempte...

            I looked online to find sources and give credit to the creator of last night's activity. I found one on pinterest dated March 2011 but there's one on sugardoodle dated 2008 and I would guess even more with early dates.  Though it's gone through many tweaks (as with the young women's, new beginnings, and personal progress themselves) even plausible that it was created before internet access.  Bless those that have shared their ideas through posts and other internet sources.  I commend you, but as I am unable to find the original source, I will not be referring  other sites with this particular post.             We had to have Jenna at her school by 5:00, though the concert wasn't scheduled to start until 5:30.  Her instructor had advised the class to dress up - girls wear dresses and boys wear ties.  I guess there was some ques...