The Okie Legacy

Vol. II, Issue 67 --- 15 July 2000

Aftermath REUNION 2000 / GUESTBOOK

"Phases & Mirror Images"

This week in Oklahoma has been a Hot and Sunny Summer. I've been keeping cool inside during the day contemplating a question that a friend sent me, "When you look in the mirror you see only a reverse image of the way you really appear. When you have a studio photograph made do you try to look your best and maybe try to show your best side? Are you happy with the results when you receive the final approved exposure? Is this what you look like? How does it compare to the setting you had made a few years ago? Maybe your high school graduation picture seems OK, but do you look like that now? How about the black & White snapshots that were made of you when you were much younger, are they alright?". The REAL question is, "At what phase of your life do you look like yourself?"

Are we not ourselves through all phases of our lives? Do we only see what we want to see of ourselves at a particular time in our lives? AND... Do we only see ourselves as we want to when we are happy with who we are? I am curious to what your thoughts and "HOW" you would answer the Question, "At what phase of your life do you look like yourself?"

One of many friend's response, "Linda , I like your question. And, I feel you should look like yourself your whole life. To be truely yourself is to be honest and true to yourself. Also, true to others, but as they say Be true to yourself. I also feel that one has to respect and (don't take this wrong) but love yourself, or no one will respect and love you , for who and what you are. The Person, Yourself."

Another friend's reply, "Seriously though, I think that when we are finally happy with who we are, we look like ourselves. Once we are happy with who we are, and finally can love ourself, and are capable of extending this to loving others also, we are happy when we look inward, and like what we "see". To us, the only one who really matters, we finally look like ourself."

Another friend's wrote, "To our mothers and to God we are each individuals and are recognizable as uniquely ourselves at all phases. At all times in our life we are still ourselves, and where ever we go, we have to take ourselves along. No amount of make over, (even surgically) alter the "us-ness" of who we are"

Still another friend responded with, "In the true sense of the word you are always yourself... Now whether you recognize and accept it is another thing. Possibly whether you look at yourself objectively and subjectively in balance or one or the other. Like I said, I think once again it's relative to where you are in time and in your life. Your frame of mind plays a large role in how you decide how you feel about yourself that day, week, or year."

"As to the question, I look like myself, now - no matter the phase, because I understand the truths in appearance independent of 'phases.' And because I live my life in such a way that looking isn't that hard, and seeing is fairly simple."

So... When you look in the mirror you see only a reverse image of the way you really appear, how does it compare to the studio photograph or the earlier black and white family photos? Were you happy with the results when you received the final exposure? Is this what you look like? How does it compare to the setting you had made a few years ago and your high school graduation? Do you look like that now?

How did you feel about yourself and do you live your life so that looking isn't that hard and seeing is simple? It's like my friend says, "It's relative to where you are in time and in your life. Your frame of mind plays a large role in how you decide how you feel about yourself that day, week, or year."

o OAKIE'S MAILBAG/LINKS

THE RUNNYMEDE RESTORATION COMMITTEE, c/o Jim Richey, 1201 Maple, Alva, OK, (580) 327-3072 are in the process of restoring the historic building, The Runnymed Arms, that was built in 1889 in the historic English Colony of Runnymede, Kansas and moved to Alva, O.T., 1893. Donations for restoring this historic building are graciously appreciated and tax deductable. Alva, Oklahoma -- Runnymede-restore || Donation Form and History of Runnymede || History of Runnymede Hotel

"DEAR OAKIE, enjoyed your last newsletter very much about the principles of our wonderful government and how it all began. My fourth great grandfather John Lansing Jr. was on the first continental congress and helped draft the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. His brother was my ancestor Dr. Abraham G. Lansing. Abraham's wife Susannah Yates was my fourth great grandmother and her father my fifth great grandfather was the Hon. Abraham Yates Jr. who is being honored this summer in Albany, New York as "the typical Albanian" as he left more notes and ledgers and writings that pertained to political and social and community issues of his day it seems than any other person of his time and as well sat on the first Continental Congress and helped draft the Constitution. I have a deep regard for these two ancestors and a deep love for this country and the freedoms we enjoy. John Lansing met with an untimely death for his beliefs and for his strong desire to see the Amendments which later became the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution which he at that time could not sign as he was an Anti-Federalist and feared too much control on a national level which could impinge on the rights of the people at the state level. His valiant efforts toward the implementing of the Bill of Rights along with the other founders of the country provide the freedoms of speech and so many other rights which we as American citizens enjoy. God Bless America, may it ever be a nation where its citizens can enjoy the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." Elizabeth

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CORNCAM FROM IOWA FARMER TODAY - Watch the corn grow. "Count the ears in this Iowa cornfield. See it tassel. Cheer as the mighty cornstalks battle wind, hail and rainstorms. Bring your friends back to see the plants as they reach for the sky" --

REUNION 2000 PARADE... "The riders in the convertible were members of the class of 1960 who were FFA Sweethearts. They were Marclyn Stamm Woolsey (in the front seat) and Judy Bush Little and Sue Houston Rowlett. Checking my yearbook for 1960, I see that Dorthy McGill and Jamie Higby were attendants to Marclyn Stamm in 1960. (Dorthy and Jamie were in the class of '61.) In the 1959 yearbook, Judy Bush Little is given as the Sweetheart for 1958 (with Patty Reid and Sharon Lancaster, both members of the class of '59, as attendants), and Sue Houston was given as the 1959 Sweetheart (with Ruth Ann Maxwell and Carlene Martin, also both from '59, as attendants)."

KYLE'S REUNION 2000 PHOTO ALBUM... "I created a photo site for some Class of 1980 events. Could you list it on the Aftermath page? Thanks!" Kyle Fisher, mailto:fisherkd@bvsg.com -

Aftermath of Reunion 2000....

THE TAILHOLT / CHESTER MEMORIAL PARK... "The Major County Historical Society should be able to give you more info on the park in Chester. Their phone number is 580-227-2265. You might also contact Phillip Condreay at 580-764-3562 about this project. He is a farmer so you probably need to call him in the evening."

"ENGLAND. WARWICKSHIRE. Pickard Trepass mailto:pickard@hunimex.com writes that the Web site he is building includes such items as transcriptions of early surveys of Warwick town (by kind permission of the Warwick County Archivist) [and] a listing of Inns and Taverns as transcribed from the 1874 White's directory of the county..."

"When you look in the mirror you see only a reverse image of the way you really appear. When you have a studio photograph made do you try to look your best and maybe try to show your best side? Are you happy with the results when you receive the final approved exposure? Is this what you look like? How does it compare to the setting you had made a few years ago? Maybe your high school graduation picture seems OK, but do you look like that now? How about the black & White snapshots that were made of you when you were much younger, are they alright?". The REAL question is, "At what phase of your life do you look like yourself?" -- watchthebirdie.rtf"

"Take some time to read JFK's 1960 inaugural address. It's even more impressive in hindsight than it was in foresight. We need somebody now who believes in and can deliver the same message today." Democratic Convention 2000

Republicans (GOP) Convention

OLD ALVA SCHOOLS & Lively Lovely Ladies of the Classes of the 1920s... The history and photos of three Old Alva Schools, West Side School, East School, Old High School/Junior High. Plus Some more Info of the Classes of the 1920s and their Lively Lovely Ladies.

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QUOTE/POEM of the WEEK

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Chief Seattle

"At twenty the will rules; at thirty the intellect; at forty the judgment." Baltasar Gracian, 'The Art of worldly Wisdom' (1547)

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