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Travel safe Don.
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Ditto
Keep it between the ditches.
The older I get, and I ain’t as old as you yet Don, the more funerals I end up attending per year. It takes a lot of courage to live as long as your aunt did. To live longer than your loved ones can take a lot out of a person, any person. To burry a child is even harder on anyone, and should never happen.
Though I am never glad to see anyone go for someone to have lived as long as she did is a blessing as well. My granddad stayed with us for a few weeks when he was 94 and the stories and things he remembered were amazing to say the least.
The older a person gets you younger people need to talk to them, listen to the stories they have to tell. How life was in their day, no matter how old they were.
Listen to them.
Ask them about the days they were in school, how they got there transportation, what they did for fun.
You will never forget the look in their eyes when they are telling those stories and any others they care to share.
Good vibes to all.
And of course.
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
(Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
Mary Frye (1932)
Celebrate her life not her death and you will never forget those we have lost.
Steve
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[This message has been edited by 84fiero123 (edited 06-07-2011).]