Impressions

Yesterday, we drove to Jacksonville to visit Michael's granddaughters and his great grandson, who is turning five.  The girls are beautiful 23 year old twins who had not completed eight years of formal education when growing up. They are so slender, they could slip through a TP tube, if it weren't for the boobs they acquired, which they are quite proud of, I might say. At one time they were pretty well devoted to finding carreers as models full time and didn't see the need for further education.

However, they have come a long way with that sketchy education and beginning, I have to say. They are both working and going to school, fulfilling new goals for themselves.  We are proud of them.  Proud that they are showing what anyone with fortitude can do for his or her self. And they are doing it without help, which makes us even prouder.  Actually, making it on their own will help build the strong character and resilence they would not develop if they had it all given to them and they hadn't had to struggle some.  I told them that that was how I did it, how Michael did it and they can do it too if they really wanted to make it. I think they will have a sense of pride they never would have had if the way had been paved for them.

Today, I was a substitute visitor for shut-ins from the church.  I went to visit an elderly, beautiful lady, both inwardly as well as outwardly, whom I had met and visited with before at church.  She is very hard of hearing, is beginning to be forgetful and had just had serious cancer surgery the week before. She is a person who fills you with the warmth that she has for everyone, yet makes you feel that to her your presence means more to her than anything in her life at that moment. I enjoyed visiting with her.

Now that is what I wish people could say about me when I get old er, but I'm afraid I'm just too onery for that to happen.