Flowers left on Margaret Mary Geib’s grave on October 31, 2016 by Richard John Geib. Twenty years, mom. Twenty years ago today you died. Your body eaten up by cancer like an old fence eaten up by termites. Twenty years is a long time. You have missed the weddings of your children and the births of your grandchildren. You were 55 years old when you died in 1996. I was 29 years old. Today I am 49 years old. It won’t be long until I am the same age as when you died. It astounds me to think this. Neither your early, unlooked for death nor its trauma for our…
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October 9, 1996 to October 9, 2016: Twenty Years for rjgeib.com
Happy 20th birthday to my personal webpage! On October 9th of 1997 I started this online experiment. The date today is October 9th in 2016. Twenty years afters its inception my online presence still lives. And today I celebrate this fact. Over twenty years my work on rjgeib.com has waxed and waned, to be certain. Depending on what has been going on in my life, I have been more devoted to this webpage or less so. But over twenty years it has been a consistent effort on my behalf. Therein I have sought to make sense of the past towards living better in the now, with a faith in the…