of
who YOU are...
simply
because of who THEY were!
Yet, without the little tidbits that my
parents (and other relatives) dropped over the years, I would likely not have
been as successful as I have been in
stitching together my own ancestral tapestry...
Why would someone NOT want to know their
background?
But one group I'll never lay claim to: the three witches !!!
when recollecting things
a deceased parent has said in the past
Today,
10/10 is my late mother's birthday...
and I
can see that HER grandmother passed the day after, many years ago
Well, I
finally did the requisite genealogy on the Busch line to confirm that we're
shirt-tail relatives of the Busch Garden folks... it all comes down to an
Ulrich Busch! Wow, did he sire a lot of children !!
[Well you
had said that, didn't you?]
Hello Williamsburg !!!
It
can't always be helped but sometimes birthdays occur around the time when a
loved one has died.
I
truly hope this doesn't continue to be a theme in our extended family...
Nonetheless, a big happy b'day wish to our son-in-law
and our precious grand-daughter Kelly Quinn (who turns "1" today)
SOMEONE
WE LOVE DEARLY HAS GAINED HIS WINGS TODAY
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sun-ward I've climbed, and
joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You
have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft
through footless halls of air… . Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've
topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew
— And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high un-trespassed
sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the Face of God.
R.I.P
Big Jim, How you'll be missed!
"Born with the map of Ireland on his face
and in his heart"...
'Till we meet again
“I wanted a perfect ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity" -Gilda Radner
Alternative endings?
... in its own special, quirky way
