measuring time
Posted: October 11, 2012 Filed under: Random thoughts 1 CommentI measure time by the milestones in my life. When someone mentions a year or when I hear it in an NPR story or see it in a book or magazine I reference where I was in my life.
The year that:
- I graduated from high school
- I graduated from college
- I moved to Laredo, TX
- I moved to Oklahoma City
- I moved to the SF Bay Area
- My first wife died
- Terry and I got together
- Terry and I got married
- Terry and I bought our house in Gilroy
and then
- 2001 – you know what that’s about
Years that I see referenced I calibrate to the nearest year in the list above. What I’m wondering is whether others do that as well.
my point being 
The year I was in Philadelphia; the LC years; the NU years; the military years; the year my dad died; the divorce years; the wild times. Those are mine, and I do indeed fit stories and references into those categories. You aren’t alone in the idea, just in the organization.