![]() ![]() Weeknights midnight to 6 a.m., a guaranteed gig.” He immediately landed a program director job in Stockton, California, and asked me to come work with him. “A huge decision in my life was in September 1989 when he was fired from our station. This intrigued me how often had I done just this – what if I’d done.? “When we ran into each other the other day, he and I talked about points throughout a life when fork-in-the-road type decisions are made. This guy had been station manager at the hard rock radio station where Jimmy was a DJ. An overload day, however full of long-forgotten good times a weirdly PTSD-inducing day indeed.Ī few days after this, my 50-year-old kid ran across a former boss. This was a revelation to me too, that PTSD didn’t have to be bad, just stressful in a mild way.Ī day that won’t be leaving his memory log, as he calls it, for some time. “There is nothing traumatic about my memories, but it’s the same thing-they’re triggered by something.” “PTSD is 100 percent real,” Jimmy said, surprisingly. ![]() Different times, different kinds of dreams. All my grade school pals were my high school friends. This seemed logical to me, his dreams mixing up kids from grade school with kids 500 miles away where we moved when he was going into high school to meet kids he’d never even seen. “Having SO much brought to the forefront in one day. ![]() Not that we’re all not doing it anyway, easily falling into a brief moment from 60 years ago as we’re talking to a neighbor today. I thought to myself, my son experienced time travel. All those people happened in my life, it’s all in my memory bank.” Another overload of forgotten memories was laid out before me. “I knew them all, all those kids in the photos. He and his mom happened to be looking through boxes of photos “and there were stacks of pics on the table,” Jimmy said. Then he visited Tim, the high school buddy. ![]() He said good-bye to JJ and his girl, thinking about the encounter and its memories non-stop. “Thoughts and memories were reeling through my mind after a few hours with JJ. This made sense to me, for it’s happened in my life more than once– some periods simply more intense than others for whatever reason or time. I don’t discount the first 14 years of my life, just a disconnect.” I’ve always said that my life began when I moved to Incline. It’s another life, and I’m so removed from it. He knew something about every name I threw out there. “I brought up as many names as I could remember,” Jimmy said. This is not unusual – nearly half a century changes us, and not everyone is going to be able to be irrepressible like when we were wild and crazy with energy we are not necessarily simpatico like we’d been with the kid we met when we were eight. Of course, I remember stories, things we did, but I don’t know HIM.” But even after spending a few hours together, nothing really clicked. “I mean, it was a nice time, his fiancé is nice. “I don’t remember JJ,” my son went on to explain. Maybe it’s because his mom Sumi died two or three years ago at age 83? I recall JJ as always grinning with that kid gleam in his eye that meant he was plotting something. “He is quiet, reserved now, Mom,” said Jimmy. One of the things that had drawn the two boys to one another as kids, besides their ease at getting into trouble with the principal, was that my son is James John and his new pal John James. Last week, Jimmy, my son, met grade school constant companion, JJ, at a vacation spot where he and his fiancé were staying near Jimmy. The second memory trip was a visit to a friend and his mother whom he’s been in contact with since high school graduation 35 years ago. The first memory trip was a visit with a childhood friend he has seen only one other time in 45 years. And within one week of that, he was given a glimpse of a path he reluctantly did not take. Within one day, my son experienced two intense layovers in his mind and memory. ![]()
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