I "POaST" about my life ... 1971 - 1972 9th Grade

POWELL JUNIOR HIGH

At the beginning of the 9th grade I was the bomb! I thought being the top of the grade chain was the best.  I was in Swing Choir, I loved school, my teachers, and even the dreaded SEMINARY!  Since our school was brand new we didn't have a seminary building yet so we walked to the Alma School Rd. Church Building. But it was all good.  I loved going there, this was a way for our whole stake of youth to actually merge together find common ground.  And then it happened.  I got Mono.  I don't know how, when where or why.  All I know is we were sitting at the Whataburger and I mentioned that my throat hurt and my glands were swollen. Next thing I know I am in the doctors office and he is telling me I have mono and asking who I've been kissing lately!  I was horrified.  It was like Marcus Welby MD and any moment I was going to have to hand over a list of people I'd been kissing, (if indeed I had been kissing anyone)!!! The Doctor prescribed... Bed rest for 2 weeks and penicillin.  At the end of the week I tried to go back to school afterall I was at the top of my game - I needed to get back there.  The penicillin has made me break out in GIANT RED BLOTCHES all over my pasty white skin, I was so embarrassed, teased and laughed at as I went around to my classes getting homework assignments and to my locker to get my books, because of that I was horrified and retreated quickly back home to my roll away couch!  I got sicker instead of better.  I ended up with bad case of mono and too, a deep hard to breathe case of pleurisy! I was out of school for 3 months.  Urlene brought me home my assignments.  I laid on our roll out coach, home alone, weak, and puny for months.  I did school from home. In late nov when I returned we still had to walk to the church, I couldn't do it, I was still too weak.  My mom happened to work right up the street so she would come and drive me to the  church and everyone would jump on the car and tag along, it was the only thing that made this terribly depressing turn of events livable.  The fact that others thought it was fun to get a ride to seminary.

Nancee

me

Friends shift again Dale Childers, Sherman Davis, Charlie, Kevin, Jane, Debbie and Sheila of course no Sandy or Nancee they are back at Mesa Jr... This year Nancee and her family were in a car wreck and her little sister Lauree died it was really really hard on her.  She got a concussion and now has a metal plate in her head.  She could have died too. It was a hard dark time for her.  
Urlene is coming and going her mom ... it's all very hard on us. Our moms are sick alot!  
The teachers are very cool this year. The Drama teacher I really liked her, Mrs. Carlson. I really like drama the lights especially. I got to work the technical side of the plays this year.  I love Mrs. Garrett - Choir!  I note in my diary that Mr. Thompson (the shop teacher) is out-a-sight!  
I'm always busy with Mutual. But a bit rebellious. For instance it is a given that you don't wear pants, and at times I do!  Also For ward dances I like to do the music. If I play songs that are not appropriate when it's coming to that part I DJ with "SNOWBALL" and start the song again! I think I'm so much smarter than the adults about these things like I think I'm getting away with something.

9th grade

A high light of this year would be going to Teen-Elect! No one from Mesa Jr. attended? Weird because it's me stake.  It was so great. We learned manners at the table and how to dance proper! I enjoyed it so much and loved seeing everyone and dancing.  Of course you know me any time I can dance life is groovy throw in some boys and food - I'm happy as can be!!  I really love going to mutual, to church even. I pay my tithing from working at WIllis Linen and Babysitting and I participate in all the extra circulars. I love girls camp, Dance Festival, Speech Festivals, firesides, you name it I love how I feel when I am there.

speaking of seminary... Brother Randall was our 9th grade teacher. Poor Brother Randall. I'm sorry. I have to say first, WOW!   Debbie and I gave that man a run for his first year of teaching. I think maybe he even quit after the first year I'm sure we were to blame. Again I'm sorry.  

• One time he called Debbies mom - I'm sure to tell her that we were acting out. The next day Debbie shook hands with him and told him she was gonna tell her Dad that he was calling her mom and acting so alarmed that he would "come on" to her mother. HE was horrified, his face turned white I'll never forget the look on his face or the laugh of Debbie Harper.  WOW!  
• Another time we went into class - he always met us and shook hands with us.  I then went behind the door he called roll I said here. But the whole time I was behind the door.  I was eating an orange and throwing the peelings out into the class. I could hear the kids laughing but Brother Randall just kept on teaching. Afterward Deb told me he just kept looking around to see where I was and never did figure it out. I shook hands with him on the way out he looked so confused. (all of this of course is My perspective I wonder what he was really doing or thinking of me).
• When we got into our new building the building had the coolest sliding chalkboards. I went in before class and wrote bad words on the hidden part of the chalk board and when he slide it over to write on it ... BAM! the class roared.

From Moms Notes; It has been an eventful year-- with heartaches a plenty at Mothers Death and that of several very dear friends and the seperation of Timmy and his family.  Timmy finished a course in Motel Management and will begin doing so after the holidays. Until then he is working with Tim at the stable. Tom is making money shoing horses. He works nights at the butter factory and rodeos on the weekends. Judyann awarded a CPS certification -- we are proud of her. She is secretary for Comptroller of ASU she spends her weekends in Rocky Point. 

I'm sure that their are more stories but you get the drift, I was awful and must have needed attention, but I did like to make my friends laugh.

Grandma Gladys and Grandpa Lyman

Aunt Sarah Mom Aunt Audruff and Uncle Otis  they came to visit and to shop for Birds!

Judyann and I in our Maxi dresses!

Daddy bought a new horse trailer and moved his Riding Stable business

This year we bought another new Riding Stable, now we've gone from 48th street and McDowell in Phoenix to Hardy Dr between Broadway and University and now 618 W. 1st Street in Tempe.  I spend alot more time at the stables now I seem to be the cleaning help and the clean the stalls girl.  I really like being over there I just want to feel like I belong somewhere.  Sometimes Timmy is over helping Daddy, he lives in the little silver trailer now I don't know why? I'm kinda afraid of him yet at the same time he is hilarious and really fun to be around. A few times he took me to school and would let me drive down 8th ave! 

MEDIA:

THE WORLD:  these are The years of;  Go Ask Alice, Billy Jack, Godfather and Dirty Harry!

The Sonny and Cher Show was a regular I loved watching them.

I was raised on Jim Reeves, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins people like that and then things started to change with the war. The Doors, Iron Butterfly, CCR, TheBand, Black Sabbath, and Edwin Starr actually singing WAR! My music world has turned upside down.

Three dog Night, Rolling Stones, Temptations, James Taylor, Carol King, Donnie and Marie

In 1972 Deep Purple, and Neil Young.

1971 New Years Eve Dance  (not very flattering but I thought I was Far Out I'm sure)!!

a poem from school about Girls camp summer before the 9th grade

Camp in the Summer of '71

Good ole camp LO-MIA! Enchantment arose when May ended and I could return to the many moods of this great place, including love, madness, learning and talk of THE boy!

WHAT A JOY!

Friday night brought excitement to our adie when beans were Served and sickness occurred. Debbie need aid - "Help, Help!" she cried! Sandy Turned to see and fell off the top bunk.

WHAT A THUNK!

Sunday is always a beautiful day at camp, with worship in the morning in our out side grove. The logs on which we sit are not always so comfy, but the spirit is jus great!

WHAT A TRAIT!

Fireside on Sunday Evening when we all gather together to share our love of the gospel and each other, is where comradeship is shown and we shed many a tear.

WHAT A YEAR!

We always go on hikes - this time we chose to go to the bathtubs. Taking the path up we followed the creek back getting wet and having fun.  Some don't like to get soaked -- Like our Jane!

WHAT A PAIN!

Coming home is so sad! We gather to sing and say goodbyes. As we board the bus for the long ride, I see friends both old and new and think "Oh, I'm glad I'm alive!"

WHAT A DRIVE!

Teacher comment; Good job! Cleaverly done thanks for sharing your experience   B+

I "POaST" about my life -- 1969

1968 Easter

1969 Easter

I start out the year with a visit to the local movie theater to see "Live a Little Love a Little" and "Westside Story"!  Tom is missing church to go to rodeos almost every Sunday.  Sometimes we go to watch, but after we attend our meetings.  I just want to be like Debbie Earnhardt she is a barrel racer and I love her clothes!!!  (Oh man!)  I am in Advanced Band playing the clarinet.  Urlene is "just" in music!!! (haha!)  Urlene and I created a "Fort" where we could go and be away from the world it's UNDER the addition to the trailer (Tom's room)! AGAIN OH MAN!  I really like to go to Primary and learn, make things and see my friends.  The School bus drops me off at the church and then I walk home.  Sometimes we stop at Kennys Hamburger Drive Inn and eat, play to Juke box and dance for the people there!! AGAIN OH MAN!

My 6th grade class Mr. Kemp

My friends were in both of the schools 6th grade classes (Franklin Elementary on Main Street in Mesa) so I bought both pictures!  Debbie was my friend we were tight, but she sometimes annoyed mom.  Once I wrote that Deb came over again today and just walked in without knocking and was load and happy.  Mom told her "You do it again I'm calling the police"  oh Mom, calm down - I wonder where I got that attitude of mine!!!  She hated it when Debbie was late and we had to wait for her when we took her places. One time we got into alot of trouble fighting over our barbies.  Her brother Mark got his hand stuck and almost pulled off his thumb once in our ringer style washing machine!

the other 6th grade class Mr Bryant

Judyann faints alot. One day she fainted after takinga shower I didn't know what to do. She lay there having a seizure I called for help and held her I called mom to come home and we took her right to the doctor. the doctor said she had heart problem, so we went to another doctor and he said it isn't heart its thyroid.  P.S. when she sleeps its weird cuz her eyes look like they are open!  creeps me out!  

This year Uncle Blackie Died

Aunt El and Uncle Blackie when they were married in Wyoming

Judyann, Uncle Blackie, Tom and TIm

I had worked really hard to plan a "Father / Daughter" hoedown with hay bails and western music so that my Daddy would come with me and I could show up at the church and they could all see that I really do have a Father! Jane worked with me because she wanted her dad to want to come to the church too (we had the non member fathers!).  Then it happened, Aunt El calls - "Uncle Blackie died at 5:30 in the morning having coffee at the breakfast table he just keeled over".  Now we have to go to Salt Lake City in the middle of the winter and miss my Primary activity - WOW! a little selfish kel! 

 But what is better is the story of the actual trip to SLC!  Mom flew up immediately to be with Aunt El. Daddy, Judyann and I drove up in her Oldsmobile!  I can remember the whole trip like it was yesterday.  Sis was driving, Dad in the passenger seat me in the back.  We are approaching Flagstaff and snow was everywhere!  So when we pull into Flag, stopped to get gas the guy there tells Daddy that there is snow all the way to Salt Lake so we need chains!  Thus we leave the car to have the chains put on and we go across the street to eat breakfast!  We then head out.  When you pull out of Flag going north you can see forever ... what we saw was NO SNOW!  Judyann had her hair in curlers as big as frozen orange juice cans (in fact they might have been OJ cans!) Dad started swearing up a storm.  He made her pull over and made her take off the chains (really dad?? why don't you just cuss and pace and smoke while sis take the chains off) so she gets them off now all muddy and her hair a wreck!!! Then before she could pick them up off the ground and put them in the trunk dad threw them in the car on the floor board of the front seat.  Every time he would move his boots they would make a noise and remind him and he would go off again.  It makes me laugh now, just thinking about it, but I remember just curling up on the floor in the back seat and crying myself to sleep. 
I see in Moms journal that she wrote "it pleased me so much to have Tim make such an effort to leave the stables and make the trip to Blackies funeral with Judyann and Kelly Sue.  He is kind and considerate of me!"   WOW!

Mom and Dad went on a little Vaca (that didn't happen often) and it seems I must have not liked it at all.  She wrote me this letter;

My dear little miracle daughter, as we go on our vacation this morning you feel "left out" but you really aren't! No matter where we go or what we do and see we will think of you and many times we will say - "Kel would like that" or "Obe would get a kick out of this." In other words sweetie we love you whether we are with you or not.

Honey I have a feeling you didn't quite tell me true about your diary, so why not go back the days that you haven't written and write.  It's important to write in your diary.Someday you'll want to remember when Urlene left or when you started helping Mrs. S. or BYU Week or talking to Charles!

Remember to say your prayers! The most important thing in this life is keeping close to your Heavenly Father.  Be true to Him and to yourself and we will always be proud of you and of our faith and trust in you.  Though you may wonder about or even question what Daddy or I do or say, please, sweetheart, NEVER NEVER question our very deep love for you.

Be your kind sweet self and help those you can.

lovingly Mother.

Singing Dead ... yet another Dream

Emotional Goodbyes and Discord????

The dreams, they just keep on coming!  More real more complete, more colorful!  If I could just put it all together I probably would have all my life's questions answered!!!

the Lyman family in Blanding 1956

To begin with my mom was singing to me - She NEVER SANG! I never heard her sing except at church!  One thing she always liked about going to the Lyman Family reunions and get togethers was that they always sang.  In the dream, ;like I said She was singing in a quartet, with the "sisters Lyman" by the way.

  I was leaving to go into another room and she wanted to come too, but I oh so diplomatically sat her down on a pew. 

 When I went into the other room it was mostly white, with Drapes hanging from ceiling to floor and wall to wall.  For some unknown reason I started to clean - I was dusting with a rod and feather that reached to the top of the drapes.   In the corner was a cob web, I was pulling it away from the wall and down when all of a sudden I realized there were bugs. 
 Then I saw it a nest??? that looked like a hive, but it wasn't bees - it was little tiny bugs.  Thousands and thousands of them. When I went to knock it down the bugs flew at me and I ran back to the room with my mom.  She wasn't there any more.  

The scene pulled back like a camera pulling away and I was standing in a large room that looked like a chapel, with a piano, pews and me no one else.
 The piano started to play by itself no one singing or playing,
 but it was our old piano (remember the green one!) completely out of tune  (I can't hear a tune if I had too, yet I knew it was out of tune)..... fade to black!!!  

 Holy Moly now my dreams have directors!!! CUT!

Interpertation:

Singing 
To sing in your dream represents happiness, harmony and joy in some situation or relationship. You are uplifting others with your positive attitude and cheerful disposition. Singing is a way to celebrate, communicate, embrace and express your feelings.

To hear someone sing in your dream signifies emotional and spiritual fulfillment. Your mood is changing for the positive as your outlook in life is looking up.

Dead 
To see or talk to the dead in your dream forewarns that you are being influenced by negative people and are hanging around the wrong crowd.This dream may also be a way for you to resolve your feelings with those who have passed on. Alternatively, the dream symbolizes material loss. If you dream of a person who has died a long time ago, then it suggests that a current situation or relationship in your life resembles the quality of that deceased person. The dream may depict how you need to let this situation or relationship die and end it......To see and talk with your dead parents in your dreams represent your fears of losing them or your way of coping with the loss. You are using your dream as a last opportunity to say your final good-byes to them. 

Bug 
To see a bug in your dream suggests that you are worried about something. It is symbolic of your anxieties and/or fears. What is literally bugging you? Consider also the popular phrase "bitten by the bug" to imply your strong emotional ties or involvement to some activity/interest/hobby. 
Piano
To dream that the piano needs to be tuned indicates some aspect of your life is in discord. You need to devote more time to a relationship, family duties, project, or other situation.

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Don't be Immature, rise above it!

Two nights ago I had the strangest dream.  .  .

not going to outline it in detail cuz it was just too awful. but like I said documenting my dreams of late  is helping me work thru some issues.

There was a Death of a loved one. then 
The return of another loved one bringing all the ingredients to make bread.

seems simple but the interp goes like this:

death of loved one

To dream about the death of a loved one suggests that you are lacking a certain aspect or quality that the loved one embodies. Ask yourself what makes this person special or what you like about them. It is that very quality that you are lacking in your own relationship or circumstances... the dream indicates that whatever that person represents has no part in your own life anymore...If you dream about the death of a child, then it implies that you need to let go of your immaturity and start being more serious. 

bread

To see bread in your dream represents the basic needs of life. Bread may signify the positive qualities and great things you have learned on your journey of life... it suggests that you need to rise above the situation or rise for the occasion.

Airplane Crash

Last night I had another dream ....  what cha think?

We were sight seeing in a place with a very blue sky.  We had several cars.   The Pool water ran into the ocean.  (sky was bluer than this picture but i like the house I'm going with this one!!!)  

 Different children were everywhere.  The place we stopped to stay at was huge and white stucco with arched windows and green, green grass surrounding it.  It lots of rooms and the rooms all were busy and light.  The living room window was a window looking out on the ocean where I could see a light house.  The floors were wood not cement I remember thinking that was odd.  A group was at the kitchen table and some sat at the bar.

We took the children to the drive Inn.  In slow motion I sat back and watched as we had hibachi grill going, they were cooking hotdogs! The girls were blowing on white cotton ball flowers and watching as the pieces blew away in the wind.  A truck was turned backwards to sit and watch the movie, the kids were jumping on trampolines to the side.  It seems as if I could see all of my family and their children.  Parkers were there and Zane decided to leave he was going to fly home in an airplane, he wanted to take some of the children and we discussed it and for some reason (I can't find it, I've searched my mind for it all day) he didn't go.  Some of the families did leave then and took some of the children.

In slow motion everyone else left the parking area all in a seemingly choreographed orderly manner.  I was left there alone when from the deep blue sky (which it couldn't have been right? cuz we were at the drive in - night time!) 

A plane shot out the blackest smoke, not white and then started nose diving downward.  Then in fast motion turned started straight at me.  As I watched it coming toward me above the Drive In Movie screen my life flashed before me.  Then BAM! it hit the screen blowing up everywhere crashing into the parking area and I woke up, my heart beating and my adrenaline pumping!!

Now I've been wondering somethings all day and I've gotten no answers - But one of them being this - am I dead?  

So lets just say today has not been very productive!!!!! Yikes.

interpretation:
Movie 
To dream that you are watching a movie suggests that you are watching life pass you by. Perhaps you are living vicariously through the actions of others. Consider also how the movie parallels to situations in your waking life. Observe how the characters relate to you and how they may represent an aspect of yourself. Viewing them on a movie screen projects them onto another person and thus makes those feelings and actions seem more distant. Your subconscious is trying to protect you from experiencing them directly.
Children 
To see children in your dream signify an aspect of yourself and your childlike qualities. You may be retreating back to a childlike state and longing for the past. You are trying to still satisfy repressed desires and unfulfilled hopes. Perhaps there is something that you need to see grow and nurture. Take some time off and cater to the inner child within. Alternatively, the dream may be highlighting your innocence, purity, simplicity, and carefree attitude. If you are fighting with children, then it implies that you are repressing your inner child. The children could represent someone in your waking life (coworker, mate, sibling, etc.) who is acting like a child. If you see children fighting in your dream, then it means that your sense of morality and character are in conflict.
Airplane
To dream that a plane crashes signifies that you have set overly high and unrealistic goals for yourself. You are in danger of having those goals come crashing down. Alternatively, the crashing airplane represents your lack of confidence, self-defeating attitude and self-doubt. You do not believe in your own ability to achieve those goals. Loss of power and uncertainty in achieving your goals are also signified.
Sea 
To see the sea in your dream represents your subconscious and the transition between your subconscious and conscious. As with all water symbols, it also represents your emotions. The dream may also be a pun on your understanding and perception of a situation. "I see" or perhaps there is something you need to "see" more clearly. Alternatively, the dream indicates a need to reassure yourself or to offer reassurance to someone.  It brings about hope, a new perspective and a positive outlook on life no matter how difficult your current problems may be.
Ocean 
To see an ocean in your dream represents the state of your emotions and feelings. It is indicative of spiritual refreshment, tranquility and renewal. Alternatively, the dream means that you are feeling empowered and unhindered. You have a positive outlook in life and are not limited by anything.

Death and it's reflection

I reflect about life and death;   "There is more to life than death..."   The man from snowy river

this is me and my sister

There is something about a sister.  A best friend, a judge, a confidant, an example, a mother, hugger, a bridge between mom and me, a bond that 

from childhood can never ever be touched, broken or forgotten.  I miss you Sis

this is us on easter

yep! that's us!

January ...

it's an interesting month.  It's suppose to be when we start over, get a fresh start on new habits, goals, out looks on life.  It's not to me, even though it's the month I was married in January causes me to reflect on death.

My brother Tom, Sister Judyann and Mom & Daddy
thats me on my wedding day.  Timmy wasn't there.

See them?  they are my syblings a relationship that is suppose to be the longest you have on this earth.  see the baby in the middle?  that's me, I'm the only one left.  I've lost them all to death.

step into my blog, and meet the family

That's my Aunt El!
She was my
bestest auntie ever.

this is her with my Uncle Blackie
on their wedding day in Wyoming.

This is my Uncle Otis.
 He was the best Uncle ever, he had 4 wives that I know of and no children.

this is my nephew Tim with his
Uncle Tom (my brother) his dog and donkey!
I know I've shown this pic before,
but it's one of my favorites

Thats my brother Timmy, we were the last two left.
We were having a memorial for my brother Tom

This Jaci is was Timmy's wife, she made him very happy.
  Without Jaci we would have lost Timmy much sooner than we did.

1 Corinthians 15:

12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have^atestified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is ^avain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are ^aperished.
19 If in this ^alife only we have ^bhope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is ^aChrist ^brisen from the dead, and become the^cfirstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came ^adeath, by man came also the^bresurrection of the dead.

these are them; Uncle Otis, Aunt El Mom and her parents  -
How amazing is it that in my life time I knew everyone
except my grandfather in this picture and this is how they traveled!?!?!?

I believe, The spirits of all man are taken home to God and we will live again and all be together as a family One Day  and that's how I reflect on death.  Miss you all.

please enjoy the attached video





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31 Days of 31 Christmas' - 2008