Auxiliarymemory.com Website Review

my obsession with memory is teaching me fascinating lessons. i realized something new today. i was trying to remember what my mental outlook was like in 1959 when i was seven. i barely remember the presidential election of 1960 and seeing kennedy and nixon on tv. but i have no memory of ever even noticing president eisenhower before 1960. and i got to thinking about my essay “counting the components i see now we know many languages even when we think we only speak one. in 1959 i had no language for politics, so politics was invisible to me. i didn’t understand words like mayor, governor, president, senator, congressman, etc. i didn’t know about local, state, and federal governments. i didn’t know about the three branches of the federal government. i didn’t know about constitutions or legal systems. the world of politics was invisible to me because i didn’t know the language of politics. at seven, i also didn’t know the language of religion, science, mathematics, or even grocery shopping. my awareness of politics began on november 22, 1963, when president kennedy was shot in dallas. that’s because my family watched the news for several days straight, and that hooked me on watching the nightly news with walter cronkite. however, i still didn’t know the language well. in the 9th grade (1965-1966) i took a required civics clas* that taught me the basics, but i’ve been learning the nuances of the language of politics ever since, and still don’t speak it fluently. it has its own vocabulary and grammar. this morning i was researching where i went to school in aiken, south carolina in 1964. i found a copy of an aiken newspaper online. i was 12 at the time. all the stories about local politics and businesses were unfamiliar to me. even the ads were unfamiliar to me. i didn’t shop for groceries or clothes at age 12, so i didn’t have the language to remember that part of aiken, south carolina. i realize now i could have read that paper at age 12, but didn’t. i doubt i could have understood most of it. i didn’t have the languages. and