偷看了两个人的日记，摘录（翻译）如下：

Noel's

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Today, my honey Kate came to visit me with her grandson. The little guy is happy to share his experience of learning skateboarding with me. Yes, he has been in junior high school, and I am old.

Kate also told me that a young man from Hangzhou, China, sent an e-mail to the nursing home, hoping to use the video I took in China 30 years ago. I reacted for a long time before I remembered that there was such a thing.

It is certainly a good thing for more young people to see the images of history. I asked Kate to tell him. Of course, remember to sign. Chinese people's awareness of copyright is getting better and better.

I found those videos of China today 1990 series and watched them many times. When I was 65 years old, Kate just became a novice mother. I went to China with my colleagues from the geological survey team. I was deeply impressed by Hangzhou, Nanjing and Beijing. In particular, the West Lake in Hangzhou is a paradise on earth. How comfortable it is to sit on a hand rowing boat and blow the wind.

Those people who sat on the West Lake cruise ship with me at that time are gone. Now I understand the sentence "friends are half scattered" said by Chinese poets. I shouldn't have a chance to go again.

2019.9.18 周三

今天我的宝贝女儿Kate带着她的孙子来看我，这小家伙很高兴跟我分享他学滑板的经历，是的，他已经上初中了，而我也老了。

Kate还告诉我说，一个来自中国杭州的小伙子，给养老院发了邮件，希望能使用我30年前在中国拍的视频，我反应了好半天，才想起来确实有那么回事。

历史的影像让更多的年轻人看到当然是好事一桩。我让kate转告他当然可以，记得署名。中国人的版权意识越来越好了。

我找到了那几段China Today 1990的系列视频，反复看了好多次。那是在我65岁的时候，那个时候kate刚成为一位新手妈妈，我和地质考察队的同事一起去中国游玩了一圈，杭州、南京、北京都给我留下了深刻的印象，尤其是杭州的西湖，简直是人间天堂，坐在手划船上，吹着风，多惬意啊。

当时和我一起坐在西湖游船上的那些人都已经不在了，我现在体会到了那句，中国诗人说的“知交半零落”。我应该也没有机会再去第二次了吧。

Kate's

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Three years ago, a young Chinese man named Frank wanted to use the video taken by his father many years ago. Yesterday, Frank contacted me again. He sent a video work "

Searching for Noel", saying that he was sorry for his father's death and didn't let him see the short film before he died.

My father left the world quietly on a snowy night on Christmas Eve last December. He lived 95 years old and had a wonderful life.

I told him that my father loved his family all his life and was keen on the creation of family images. He won the video competition award at the age of 85. When it comes to the recording of family images, Frank recommended me a documentary film "Four Springs" made by a Chinese director. I was very moved after watching it. If my father was still alive, he would like it very much.

In Frank's short film, he used a train clip taken by his father. In the train carriage, people happily clapped their hands and sang the song "Auld Lang Syne", and their faces were filled with longing for a new era. "Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne ?."

The model train of the shopping mall passed through the cave and the river and kept moving forward. Unfortunately, dad couldn't see it.

2021.8.12 周四

3年前有个叫Frank的中国小伙子，想使用爸爸多年前拍的视频，昨天Frank又联系了我，他发来一段影像作品《寻找Noel》，说对父亲的过世很遗憾，没有让他在生前看到这部短片。

爸爸在去年12月圣诞节前夕一个雪夜安静地离开了世界，他活了95岁，他有精彩的一生。

我告诉他，爸爸一生热爱家庭，热衷于家庭影像的创作，在85岁拿到了视频比赛大奖。谈到家庭影像的记录，Frank推荐了我一部中国导演拍的纪录片《四个春天》，我看完很感动，如果爸爸还活着，看了一定很喜欢。

在Frank的短片里，他用了父亲拍摄的火车片段。人们在火车车厢里，一起开心的拍着手唱着那首《友谊地久天长》，脸上洋溢着对新时代的憧憬。“怎能忘记旧日朋友，心中能不怀想。旧日朋友岂能相忘，友谊地久天长。”

商场的模型火车穿过山洞、越过河流，不断向前行驶，可惜爸爸看不到了。

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