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captainsblog) wrote2010-07-23 01:48 pm
captainsblog) wrote2010-07-23 01:48 pm
Passing the catchup to my sister
Dear Sandy,
Today would have been your 71st birthday. Not one of those milestones that gets a lot of press. "You're 71- go have fun!" is about all the greeting card industry could come up with. (That, and a lot of incontinence jokes.) Still, you would've had fun, even if they hadn't told you to.
It's been quite a year since we last talked this formally. (I know, we talk between ourselves a lot more.) You've witnessed your first grandson's birth, and christening, and a lot of togetherness among us, last summer, fall and spring. Your niece has graduated, is off to the college of her dreams, and has both the car to drive there and the drive to succeed there. Your mother-in-law seems determined to survive all of us, and is blessed to have family so close to her again.
Back in our generation of family, we're good here. We have what we want, and don't want what we don't have. You'd love being among the beauty in the back yard, even if the bees would have scared you (and Mom) half to death. Donna's been through a lot of changes with health and home, but like the rest of us, she gets at it and gets through it.
We all have our passions, our aggravations, our moments of grace. You remain a part of those lives, and as long as each of us has breath on this earth, so do you.
Love and happy birthday,
Ray
Today would have been your 71st birthday. Not one of those milestones that gets a lot of press. "You're 71- go have fun!" is about all the greeting card industry could come up with. (That, and a lot of incontinence jokes.) Still, you would've had fun, even if they hadn't told you to.
It's been quite a year since we last talked this formally. (I know, we talk between ourselves a lot more.) You've witnessed your first grandson's birth, and christening, and a lot of togetherness among us, last summer, fall and spring. Your niece has graduated, is off to the college of her dreams, and has both the car to drive there and the drive to succeed there. Your mother-in-law seems determined to survive all of us, and is blessed to have family so close to her again.
Back in our generation of family, we're good here. We have what we want, and don't want what we don't have. You'd love being among the beauty in the back yard, even if the bees would have scared you (and Mom) half to death. Donna's been through a lot of changes with health and home, but like the rest of us, she gets at it and gets through it.
We all have our passions, our aggravations, our moments of grace. You remain a part of those lives, and as long as each of us has breath on this earth, so do you.
Love and happy birthday,
Ray