Wednesday, April 17, 2013
We went to Lakeview School , Birmingham, from 1st to probably 5th grade, Stanley was always in my class,never knew he had the name David, though...he kind of had a girlfriend, Laura Parrish. I spent many long summer days walking all over Birmingham with Stan, he had a kind of reckless sense of humor. Funny, though. We joked about his dads' Ford Falcon work car, and I remember riding in the family blue Impala convertible, with Candy driving, and hearing "something tells me I'm into something good" sung by the original, Earljean,(better than Herman's Hermits).
It does not surprise me that Stan went into long distance running, because we went out in the morning walking or taking a bus and did not come home until 6 or 7 pm.
A truly mysterious event happened, I went to visit my sister Mardi and her husband Blaine in Chapel Hill in 1969 approx. to stay for a week or so, (age 16?)and I was at a mall and I ran into Marcia, with son, amazingly. We both had older siblings in grad school there. More amazing than that, Stanley was staying for a visit with them at the same time I was there! So , I went to his brother's house in Marcia's VW van and stayed over . I was from Illinois and Stan from New Orleans at the time. Talk about "synchronicity".
I would like to say to people, you might want to look up friends,it did not even occur to me to look up Stan, if I did earlier, I would have liked to go out to Chapel Hill to see him. I was running a check on old friends and found Stanley, but only after he was gone. Of all the places I have seen in the US I think Chapel Hill NC is one of my favorite.
I'm kind of shook up because I remember how kooky and humorous Stan was, and all the crazy things we did as kids, but he was always dependable as a friend and never mean or unkind. I liked all his family, and at least I am able now to pay my respects to him and his kin and friends.
Lance Taylor
