Coffee with Bill

Memory is such a strange and elusive thing. It is much more than mere knowledge, awareness, or the impressions that a person retains – be it a person, an event, a period, or subject. Memory is a celebration of those experiences. It is the realization of our past, our history, our whole life.

Bill Brunner was one of my closest friends growing up. He lived conveniently just around the corner and we were the same age we had the same toys, the same interests and quite possibly the same dreams. Bill was more than a bunch of great memories, Bill was my early childhood. Going to school together, watching TV, sports, playing games for hours. We got into everything and anything. Chemistry, geology, astronomy , swimming, racing, bikes, football, baseball the list is endless. He was the punter, running back, lineman of our football team. The only football team with real uniforms and painted helmets. Sidestreet baseball home-run hitter. Engineer of some incredibly swift paper planes. Hot wheels racer enthusiast. Tough competitor and all around typical American kid from around the block.

We threw back coffees in our little meeting spot, up there in the north west corner of New Jersey – a Pannora Bread – late one freezing week night. In my estimation, we had to fill in the gap of at least THIRTY-FIVE YEARS!

After thirty-five years, best friends find each other on the Internet.


Bill has been married over twenty years and is currently raising two preteens and we all know that is more than a full time job. If you want to reconnect with him like some of our family has already done, you can find him as one of my friends on Facebook.
Bill hasn’t changed much, except of corse in only the wiseness that life slowly unwraps for you as you become a husband, a father and a person. He was very genuine, kind and funny.

The thing that I always enjoy when I frolic in the past with old friends or family is that their memory always has a lot more than you could have ever remembered. I thought I knew it all. I thought I remembered it all. Bill kept bringing up times and memories that I thought I had long forgotten! There are so many events that connect together in your childhood, that it is impossible to keep them all.

About George C. Hartman

Redesiging design, coloring outside the lines, rolling down hills, figuring out strange people, dreaming in black and white, photographing in black and white, juggling, body surfing, fantasy football, painting, design, digital art and photo manipulation, green oceans, blue oceans, museums, discovering small towns, biking, beach, relationships that tear my heart out, bad poetry, movie making and BLOGGING
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  1. Bill says:

    George,

    It was truly awesome getting together, and the more we talked the more memories came rushing back from a way more simpler time. We have a lot more to catch up on and some new memories to be making.
    I cant wait for our next get together, lets not let too much water pass under the bridge before that happens.

    Bill

  2. Ken says:

    Wow. This picture makes me want to grab my blue number 30 jersey, head over to Bill’s front lawn or Mc’s backyard, and play some football. One day when I’m back in Jersey i hope to join you guys at that table.

  3. Anonymous says:

    OMG !! People actually read this blog ????

  4. George Charles says:

    Yeah. Number 30. We were trying to remember numbers for the “Ring of Honor” to be raised up on the sidestreet on the Fortieth Anniversary of Al Flames wooden leg getting caught in his lawn while he was chasing us.
    Mc ; #12
    George: #19
    Mark Phillip (Center) #50
    Gitts : #30
    Bobby Orr: ?
    Was Laurie Favor on the team?? She should have been. She could have probably beat the crap outta me.

    Bill: #3 (and you stunk at punting, admit it) We always went for it on fourth down anyway. I think we only punted twice in 17 years.

  5. Anonymous says:

    John Lambert: #10

  6. Bill says:

    Oh come on now, how many punters do you know that can punt that high straight up and then straight back down ????

    Ken – that would be awesome!!!!!

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