![\"\"](\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/uncBILL_me.jpg\" "\\"uncBILL_me\\"")
<\/a>You say goodbye, I say hello<\/p><\/div>
\nAnother photo from the Gerry archives. This is Uncle Bill. William Hartman. Dads brother. I will give Gerry tons of credit…even though the photo is taken too far away, off center and is blurry as hell….at least SHE TRIED! Thirty six years ago when she took this photo, she tried to create a memory, she tried to connect me to my uncle Bill. The man I NEVER knew. He was always so reserved and quiet…but that is just him and I’m sure he hasn’t changed much or at all. God bless him. I have thought about him the past 36 years. I think he was living in San Diego when I last saw him. I even think I was at his house. Or maybe it was Long Beach. I just remember California being another planet, not another state. Things were so so different there.
\nI have been told that Uncle Bill lives in California still. I know he had some health issues as a kid but here he is out-living my dad by two-fold.
\nIn this photo we are at DisneyLand. We are standing in front of the attraction: “It’s a Small World” What happens in this ride is that you are seated in a boat and you float into several rooms representing different parts\/nations of the world. There are ethnically correct dolls on both sides of the “river” and they all sing the same song–in synch—in their language. The message is pretty powerful, being this: We are all one. We are one world. The song to me, is just very sad and it brings tears to my eyes EVERYTIME. I do know this, Aunt Gerry just simply ADORED the “It’s a Small World” attraction and I can remember the look on her face as we rode it together long ago in 1975; she was a little girl in a candy store. I think I can slightly remember her having some kind of doll collection when I was little.<\/p>\n
it’s a world of laughter, a world or tears CHORUS: There is just one moon and one golden sun (chorus) Another photo from the Gerry archives. This is Uncle Bill. William Hartman. Dads brother. I will give Gerry tons of credit…even though the photo is taken too far away, off center and is blurry as hell….at least SHE TRIED! Thirty … Continue reading
\nits a world of hopes, its a world of fear
\ntheres so much that we share
\nthat its time we’re aware
\nits a small world after all<\/p>\n
\nits a small world after all
\nits a small world after all
\nits a small world after all
\nits a small, small world<\/p>\n
\nAnd a smile means friendship to everyone.
\nThough the mountains divide
\nAnd the oceans are wide
\nIt’s a small small world <\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"