Joshua's Incredible Throwing Arm #6 - Memories in the Road

Joshua's Incredible Throwing Arm #6

Memories in the Road

Journal Entry - 2006

Joshua throwing things down the slide in the playhouse built by Uncle Glenn!

From a very young age throwing rocks in
the river made him happy!

Yesterday, my brother Glenn called to tell me that he had just thought about my son Joshua.  As he was driving down a road to his work he saw a loaf of bread in the road.  He immediately thought about Joshua, and the many items he had thrown out the car window in his 22 years of life.  A few seconds later, Glenn passed a second loaf of bread in the middle of the road.  As he said in an e-mail later describing this, he said that Joshua must have a “spiritual twin” out there. 

As I have thought about these two loaves of bread over the past day, I think, with a smile of memory on my face, of such items thrown out car windows, into rivers, over fences and down hills, etc., such as a McDonald’s cheeseburger, with only one or two bites taken out of it, a Barney Videotape, a McDonalds bag of food, more videotapes, undetermined amounts of loose change, paper, mustard,  lawn chairs, remote controls, garage door openers, basketballs, pumpkins, baseballs, etc., etc., etc.  I’m sure if I continued to think even a few more minutes, the list would grow by a lot.  Each of those items has their own special memory, as we have learned to laugh and realize that the items were not really that important, only that Joshua continued to feel our love and acceptance.



Our actual garage door opener
hidden under the seat because
Joshua threw it so many times!

One of many Joshua baseballs -
most of them did not stay around very long!