This portrait is several years old now but is the only one I have of our whole family – excluding Dorie’s and my own sisters, brothers, cousins, parents, aunts, uncles, etc. I guess it is not really a picture of our WHOLE family, but it is a start.

1. Gerald Wayne Marsh May 5, 1937 m. Oct 22, 1960 2. Doris (Dorie) Isabelle Adriance Dec 12, 1934
3. Diana Rae Marsh July 9, 1`964 m. Aug 17, 1964 5. Jesse Owen Johnstun Apr 1960
7. Jacob Royal Johnstun Aug 24, 1985
8. Joel Adriance Johnstun Oct 31, 1987
9. Katelin Marie Johnstun Aug 28, 1990
10. Caleb James Johnstun Mar 1, 1995
11. Benjamin George Johnstun May 31, 1999
4. John Adrian Marsh Sept 26 1967 m. Sept 10, 1994 6. Carol Jeanne Marchand Jan 11, 1965
12. Meghan Renae Marsh Jul 16, 1998

I’ll have to get back to this on the formating of who we are. But this is a start. Hopefully you can figure it out.

Over the past few weeks I have had many memories that were long forgotten suddenly flash into my mind. I wonder why that is. Probably a sign of aging?

We read stories where there is always some old person who starts living in the past in his mind. We think this is just fiction and it makes a good story but we would never be like that.

Then one day we are that old person.

I do not say this out of any sense of self-pity or depression about aging a little. I just think that maybe as time goes by we start to realize that some of the times in which we used to live were safer and more secure in a way than whatever we face today.

We find security in situations and happenings that have already been and which hold no unknown worries about what may happen and what lurks around the corner.

We also have a tendency to remember the days gone by as we would have liked them to have been, not like they actually happened. There is untold comfort in that.

Anyway, I thought that someone in my future generations might like to know a little about what moulded me into the person I have become and setting down my ramblings in this manner might shed a little light on this. It may be interesting to others, related or not, but maybe not. If you are not interested,  don’t read this.

That is easy, is it not?

For those who may find this interesting or maybe even gain a little feeling of pleasure that they had an easier time, got a better education, made more money, gained more status, acquired more worldly possessions, well, they are welcome to read as much as they like.

In the next rambling, I will try to post a picture of my family and identify everyone so you get to know me a little better.