Time does fly! Hard to grasp that I will be 70 years old in the near future. Yep, an oldie.
I was thinking about my sweet grandmother. I called her Memaw. I loved her more than anything! She was very special to me. When I was a child, we lived in VA, she lived in TX. I did not see her for five years. It was trauma to me. We did not have a phone. She did not have a phone. There was no Skype, no Facebook, only letters. I remember the day she traveled, with her other daughter, to see us in VA. I remember the day she walked through our front door. My heart about burst!!! She was not wealthy, worked all her life, became ill, had to quit work and move in with my parents. She lived with them for twenty years before passing. I miss her still.
The other night I was laying in bed, thinking about her before I dozed off.
She:
slept with a flashlight.....I do, too, now.
took a pencil and little notebook to bed to jot down any thing she needed to remember....I have one next to my bed, too, now.
she went to sleep by listening to a small transistor radio, battery run. I have an Amazon Fire that I watch before sleeping.
was a very talented seamstress, earned her living working in a garment factory. I sew.
loved her grandkids. I do mine.
would have been a wonderful great great grandmother.
Life is short.
Many go too soon.
Remember them by your life.
Guess I'm like her more than I realized.
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