This photo accompanied an article entitled, “This is One of the Most
Beautiful States in America-But I Bet You Can’t Find It on a Map” by Teddy
Minford. I immediately exclaimed to
myself, “I’ll take your bet and double it!”
The answer is Idaho and I would have won the bet.
My mind was subsequently flooded with wonderful memories. In 1976, five months after Rett and I were
married, we departed Tennessee for a state that a few months earlier we had to
look up on a map and that our only association was with potatoes. What an adventure! We were young, brave, and foolish and were
happy to have employment. Little did we know what beauty we were soon to
behold.
During the summer of 1977, we discovered the awesome beauty of the
Sawtooth Mountains including Redfish Lake.
We remember cooking freshly caught trout on an open campfire for dinner
as we watched the sun set over the mountain range mirrored on Redfish Lake.
Stunning!
Memory is our
ability to encode, store, retain and subsequently recall information and
past experiences in the human brain. It can be thought of in general terms as
the use of past experience to affect or influence current behavior.
Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain so yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a young and callow fellow,
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain so yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a young and callow fellow,
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.
Deep in December it's nice to
remember
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
Without a hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
The fire of September that made you mellow.
Deep in December our hearts should remember then follow.
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
Without a hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
The fire of September that made you mellow.
Deep in December our hearts should remember then follow.
One model of memory known as the levels-of-processing
model was proposed by Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart in
1972, and posits that memory recall, and the extent to which something is
memorized, is a function of the depth of mental processing, on a continuous
scale from shallow (perceptual) to deep (semantic). Under
this model, there is no real structure to memory and no distinction
between short-term and long-term memory.
Idaho
1861 as a place name, originally applied by U.S. Congress
to a proposed territorial division centered in what is now eastern Colorado;
said at the time to mean "Gem of the Mountains" but probably rather
from Kiowa-Apache (Athabaskan) idaahe "enemy," a name applied by
them to the Comanches. Modern Idaho was organized 1861 as a county in
Washington Territory; in 1863 became a territory in its own right and it was
admitted as a state in 1890.
My memory of Redfish Lake certainly substantiates “Gem of
the Mountains”.
CPW
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