forty six years ago...

today is a personal anniversary of sorts:our family moved to Sacramento,on March 30.1969,forty six years to this day... on that sunny day,so long ago,i remember seeing Sacramento and smiling,not knowing that the next forty six years would bring such triumph,tragedy,and heartbreak... i was nine years old,so i have spent the majority of my life in this city... people that i have known in the last forty six years have grown up,lived,and died... we,and i,as an individual have moved so many times,that i almost can tell you about most streets in this city... i have grown up in a way that is simply unique,and at times,has been very difficult... i have traveled to 28 states(so far),and have always come home,to Sacramento,and complained that i "hated" it.... actually,i do not,but i rather not have so many people in the city... i remember moving out to Orangevale in 1971,and having very few people around "the Big House",and from Main and Central in Orangevale,to basically Sunrise and Greenback,having very few houses,and fields around Orangevale... that was paradise to me... that was my teenaged years,even though,urban creep started before i get out of high school,but honestly, i moved so many times that i knew of other areas like Fair Oaks,and especially,Folsom,but back then you had space to grow up,and things went smoothly until my junior/senior year,in high school when i became severely depressed over something private,and it literally almost killed me... my 20's was spent depressed,and later on,"on the road"(noted earlier,in this blog,on October 2,2013),so i moved away,from Sacramento for a while,but my family moved to Roseville,and then i came back into the fold,about fifteen years ago... my uncle,mother,and dear friends have died since moving to Sacramento,those forty six years ago,so long ago... can not believe that forty six years have passed,since that sunny day,so long ago,when i was smiling,but it has,so a hat tip to all those years,i give...