March 02, 2023

Count Down till aging on the 24th pt.4 of ?

 Hello All,                                                                                                                                                      Hey I want to say here and now like I said just yesterday, when I was posting my first one of these set of youthful messages in the forum of reflecting memories of when I was a tykesiter was originally supposed to be for last year when I Matt was aging to a half century marathon which is of course when one turns the BIG FIVE OH. Still I am going to make my best effort to post as many of my old memories that I am capable of well recalling is all and with that being said let's continue onwards....                                                      All that I really have to say for the most part of growing up I and my family of my mom, and my brother Michael and my sister Kylie really had mostly two home states that we resided in expect for that my brother and I were birthed in North Carolina in the city of High Point... my sister Kylie was born here in Richland,  Washington. Any way the other state we grew up when we were very young was my mother's home state of Georgia... 

Each time of when we flew into Atlanta from nineteen seventy nine till nineteen eighty four, when we left from the airport instead of heading straight for my grandparents home in Macon, Georgia they took us to the theme park in Atlanta of Six Flags and we would spend at least a couple of hours there. We would expense all of our having to stay in our seats during the cross country airplane flights we took to get there to Georgia. Our trips were always in the summer time of the year after all three of us children had finished our given school year and we were there for a two week period of time. 
   While at Six Flags we would ride our favorite rides and eat lunch or a snack of some sort like an ice cream cone. Then we would head as I said to their house and it turned out that the distance from their house to Atlanta is about if I am recalling it right about a two an a half hour drive to Twenty first street.... I remember for me of the two Sundays that I was visiting I would go to church with my grand dad and his sisters and learn why Jesus and God matter and even though now all of them have joined each other in heaven the one gift that I am always thankful for is getting  to know who Jesus is not only through the church but with my actual family as well.  

March 01, 2023

Count Down to aging on the 24th pt.3 of ?

Hey, Hey, there All,                                                                                                                                         Can anyone tell me Matt that you are able to come up with a very interesting set of ideas of talking about your past up until your birthday is a bad thing?, well I know that deep down inside you all are wondering how can you do it besides showing a photo or more at a time and just yabber on like it truly does matter. I believe in my inner soul that when we have our own special day that is meant especially and essentially for each human being to realize we have a chance to explore a set of new things in our next evolving day for our next three hundred and sixty five days which equals a whole year of time, or if it is a leap year every four years of experiencing existence.                                             For all intent and purposes, before I reveal my set of pictures that I really have a lot to say in great detail I want to say that I know why most humans are born!  There are many different reasons for why some females decide to have offspring and I am going to be hopeful that mostly what my thoughts and reasoning are of course a positive reflection for why births are meaningful to us as a species. I just hope that I don't disappoint your or my way of why life matters?! Of course after all that's the very meaning of this very series....                                                                                                                                                           Here is four photos of my mother's grandmothers from each of her parents side of the family. 

Okay I will admit that I had meant for it to be viewed with it in reverse of how it looks,  but anyway I don't think it matters either way of how my real understanding does come across. The ones on the left are of my mom's dad's mother we her great grand children knew her as Big Mama!, then there is the ones on the right my mom's mother and we grand kids knew her as Mama Jessie! We as far as I know didn't know either my mom's grandfathers as I know for certain.  Although I do know that even though it was so very long ago I remember viewing a old black and white photograph that had Mama Jessie's husband in it around nineteen eighty.  I also remember that she had a parakeet little bird that she let me feed once when we were visiting her at her home. There is two things that both of my great grandmothers had in common and of what I am talking of first that I can really remember about Mama Jessie is that she and her husband were married in their teens. I just remember her age was fourteen. As to my mom's dad's mother Big Mama, I never did find out what her age of when she was married?                                                                  To say what is the main focus of this very entry will be absolutely the top two pictures of myself Matt, my brother Michael and my sister Kylie Byrd with our mom's dad's mother Big Mama, and also the one beside it of a four generation of Kylie with her grandmother Evelyn Day Powers, her mom Nancy Powers Byrd at the time of when the photo was taken,  and of course her great grandmother Mama Jessie Day that one was taken in nineteen eighty when we were visiting my grandparents that year. The other one that has Big Mama was in nineteen eighty five. As to how does these two wonderful women fit into the earlier part of this very post of Do people of other generations want their kids to go on and have a legacy of a huge lineage in their continuous family history...                                                                                                                                                           I will at least say this on the very subject of how many families that I know really do hope that they as both providers and protectors, hope that from each lesson that their children learn in the way of life does help those wanting children to be wise and full of humbleness. Both a mother and a father need to have two important things before starting a family they need to have a occupation and a stable place that they know as home. Oh and third before having those two very vital things of beginning a future together please dear goodness please most importantly of all be plentiful in your own daily relationship with each other, make sure for certain that your bound between each other is stronger than tracing paper. For sure you'll undoubtedly can still find uncertainties in our everyday evolving evolution just during those given times find it in yourself to fight the ways of the temptations of the world is what I am trying to say,  because if their's one person who knows of that themselves it's ME and I WILL ADMIT IT.                 So what was that other one thing of two that I had mentioned before that my great grandmothers had in common besides getting married before there were laws in place to say that we as a species have to be at least closer to adulthood... well what it was that they both were addicted to was chewing tobacco and always had their spiting can with in reach of themselves. As well besides both them besides living close to eighty or ninety years old as best that I can remember they didn't die because of that very addiction. The one very important thing that I do know that both of my great grandmothers are very proud of in a humbling way is that their family lineage is still going strong even though they are no longer here themselves to seeing it.
   

Count Down to aging on the 24th pt.2 of ?

 Hello All,                                                                                                                                                        Well  it began earlier than you may think of ?, with each of these I truly feel that besides using my brain and a good lot of photos that maybe have been seen here before and others that have never been shown as of yet I Raymond Matthew Byrd am hoping to be able to share memories of my many years of living life. Now as to when I started this memorable roll of down a little long ago legacy started in the wee hours of this very morning.... oh snap, I hopefully am not to tired to making sense out of this very one.                               We are going to go to the part in my memory that in essence really only as I said earlier a set of pictures can tell... but I will try my hardest to put words from both my mind and heart as to how best to make this one matter as much as all the rest of these will to. One very important thing that I will be honest about here is for many, many, many years of any length of time, that I have felt that I really am older than dirt or time itself ( I will explain about why in some way before I am done with this whole series if not in this very post itself). Here are the three pics...  

I guess I really do mean four pics that I know are my given subject matter which is learning of new things when you or rather me being so full of  youthfulness.                                      All I know about these pictures is in a way each of them are showing what it was like of learning very hard stuff at that given set of time like in the first one with my mom holding up her hand I am either understanding how to count with my whole hand to five, or how to wave, maybe even it is possible that I am learning how to grasp a simple thing in my hand. More than likely I am learning to wave I just bet. The second pic is of me Matt at the age of (maybe latter three, or latter two), talking to my newest added member to the Byrd family tree my brother Michael, while my mom is holding him... I might as well admit that I probably still didn't know all about words and names so I'd called him "second M, since I was first M of our family" and thought of it that way if I were in a mood of who knew what? There's something very special in the background on the wall that I have in storage.                                                                                                                                  In the third picture, we are seen outside of my mom's parents house she is holding my infant baby brother Michael and our dad Michael Joe Byrd is holding me his first son. We at this small amount of time in my life had only lived in High Point, North Carolina and Columbus, Georgia that time frame was nineteen seventy six and then we were a few months later around early seventy seven we were heading to Washington state to a small town known as Richland where we lived Cottonwood street for a couple months,  when a new development area of Richland opened up in a new part of town known as Hoxie Avenue.                                                                                                                                                              As for actual inner meaning of the fourth one of Michael and Myself by the closet as our Grandma Evelyn Powers is coming to put away her pruse we both had something of a goofy surprise for her or was it a surprising secret by how my hand is completely covering my mouth. I wanna say it was a surprising sercet that we were taking my older cousin Brad Powers and them for an adventure up to Canada. (Oh that trip is a meaningful memory that I can never forget because... well it will be here somewhere  let's just  say.) Or maybe it was that we had a new puppy named Scruffy.  What this very set of meaningful memories brings back to my mind is learning takes time to understand and is greatly appreciated by me Raymond Matthew Byrd to be understanding of true faith in family bonding!                                                                                                                           To be even more fascinatingly continued for sure.... 

Count Down to aging on the 24th pt 1of ?

 Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                          Well without any doubt as you all can see it's completely common knowledge around these parts that the month of March for all intended purposes is my birthday plague time in a way, no not really, but like most who enjoy each moment of each day for what it is I really try to have this month be my BIGGEST challenge in the way of growth is so much an interesting investment. By this I mean that for me Matt, I get a chance to explore why I cherish great memories from as far back as I can honestly truly remember... yet with this upcoming year being my time to get back to having a number one at the end of my time of being around in age, I was thinking what could I possibly do for a brief special lead in to that upcoming age that I really have not done before?                                                                      I really want to devote my words of wisdom in the next coming weeks of to my fifty reasoning of why aging is very great. Now what I will admit to is that these reasons are not in a way precision perfection, yet maybe for those whom are my elders you may as well find something worthwhile that can bring Back memories of your own youth in your own daily lives and I don't mean any distant distractions if your feelings are unaffected in some way because at the end of every day your life choices are your own expressions of your existence.                                                                                                                                               Now just so that you and I will know of these fifty memories are not gonna be ranked in a big deal format as to which one is the "BEST OF" or the "WORST OF" and some of these may have been mentioned before in other posts here and I can say it will help me in just helping myself out to understand who I Matt Byrd am deep down inside of my soul...                                                                                                                                                                   So let's just jump into memory lane with number fifty out of FIFTY:                                                   If my very first shared memory out of my FIFTY to leading to my upcoming year of turning  an impactment of FIFTY ONE in twenty, twenty three were not to include the two people seen here                         


 with my brother Michael and my sister Kylie and of course myself, as well then I am going to admit without Evelyn Day Powers and her husband Benjamin Powers we all three of us wouldn't know the meaning of what FAMILY is absolutely about. They were my mother Nancy Powers Watson's parents and they treated each of the three of us kids with the greatest lessons of knowing what love is really about. Before I get to far into more content of this very meaningful memory I have to say look at My and Michael's heads we did actually have our own hair. When this was taken I want to say around nineteen eighty two we were at our dad's sister's Betty Arey and her husband Ted's home out oin West Richland, Washington for Thanksgiving dinner. We got to see my cousins Bruce and his wife Susan and their kids, and their two uncles Sean Arey who was just out of high school at the time and was getting ready for college.  An their other uncle who is a couple months younger than me and his name is Marc Arey. I remember that the Arey's had an Atria 2600 and I at least remember playing the KA-BOOM! game on their system and Astorids, but especially Pac-Man or Pitfall at the time. Maybe they also had colecovision system that was released in nineteen eighty two around the time the photo was taken on that system they had more sport type games especially Golf because the whole Arey family loved the game. They also had ownership in West Richland Golf course around this time I believe.                                                                                                                                         If you are wanting to ask me personally as to if this memory was worth sharing you bet it was for it was one of two times that both sides of my mom and dad's families were kind to each other. The other will be later on this very list. Now as to what it was that I did have on My tablet when during the month of February for when I turned it on was a blend of my two top favorite science fiction series with this                                               

           Of all the main Star Trek characters from the nineteen seventy three animated cartoon series by flimation studios that later did HE-MAN and the Masters of the universe cartoon series almost to a tee a decade later in nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty five. Which is roughly the same amount of years...and I will come back to how
HE-MAN and the Masters of the universe in a past post that I have to celebrate that character's forty years of being around.  Star Trek's animated series came before any of the actual Star Trek films. What's truly amazing about this image is someone came up with a way to love their two favorite science fiction series with a blend of the two combined.  There happens to one odd choice for one the characters seen here, I can only come up with this for a answer is that fan loves the color of Pink.....  to myself there is nothing wrong with that at all. Now as to what I want to say about my phone images that I am going to be sharing was it has been a bit of a while since I remembered doing this? On my phone when I was turning it on  during the entire month of February was this :

     A signed copy of the very last issue of his final work for Marvel comics of the character that shot comic artist Todd McFarlane into the stratosphere was his work on the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN from late nineteen eighty seven till eighty nine. Then Marvel gave him his own title of abjectless SPIDER-MAN from late nineteen eighty nine till May of nineteen ninety one. Then he and four other creators left both Marvel and Decetevice Comics and had three other artists join them in creating their own impressive properties, with his being of course Spawn at the company they created known as IMAGE comics.  When  I was looking at it on my phone screen I had it zoomed in on Spidey swinging at me. As to when while looking at my main screen of my tablet after turning it on I went and keeping myself in touch with my most current postings I went an used this                                              
, an image that I had found over this past summer into fall of what looks like the Yamato in a newer form other than the Star Blazers series that I remember as a child in a more I guess kind of a computer generated warping through space...this was of course before I had found out about Leiji Matsumoto's unexpected passing last month right before Valentine's day.
Finally before I reveal what I had on my phone's main screen after opening it let me just remind you that yours truly has a lot of gigantic plans for this year...also recall I am planning on doing a whole review of each episode of a television series that let's have what I had on my phone try to explain it without much else than this. 
A woman or maybe a young girl who knows for sure?, is opening a door into a certain fifth dimension if you dare imagine being in the TZ better known as the Twilight Zone.
          Before I plan on leaving thinking of what my continuing thoughts throughout my life are for you all, I want to reveal my site's background plate of another big thing that I have on my brain of late and here it is 

 a universal understanding of our planet earth. So once again I am off to remembering of my years of livelihood to celebrate an anniversary of age!                                                                             To Be Continued for a long while.....