Memorializing

My mother visited her family cemetery last week and left flowers on the graves of her many lost siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. She has seen a lot of water pass under the bridge during her 66 years on this earth. She is young by contemporary standards but it must be hard to accept that when so many that you loved have come and gone.

My grandmother has been in the hospital for weeks now. She is an amazing force in our family and I pray that she will get through this and be able to return home to rule her roost in Winona. She is in her 80's and still drives and cooks and gardens. Her eyesight is better than it was 20 years ago since she had cataract surgery. I hope to be with her next week regardless of whether she is at home or still in the Greenwood Leflore Hospital.

In the meantime, it is memorial day. There is big birthday party for Linda on the James River...(they lucked out with this weather!) we are also expecting Richard, Kay and their son Charlie to arrive at our door any minute.