About Easter.

[Gramps]

This shall be a different year. Unlike those of the past when me and mine got together for the annual feast and celebration there will be none. I just got home from hospital and not up to par. My oldest daughter's hubby is in the hospital quite ill with kidney failure at the age of 60.

Everyone is shifting for themselves this year -- no ham dinner, or grandma's famous homemade meatloaf with all of the goodies. No homemade deserts and salads or my oldest's tasty fruit salad. No Easter egg hunt for the kids on the lawn or just friendly chats between those I love and those who love me.

My son-in-law called me last evening. We chatted. We were boith pleased just to touch base and compare our oxygen levels.

I tell all of you this. Hang onto what you have. Cherish it. Worship it. Be thankful for the life you've lived and for the dear ones who made it special.

And have a wonderful Easter Sunday. We do plan on a celebration in two weeks if we are all able to take nousishment and that'll work just fine.

Ain't life grand???
Indeed, it is.

Gramps

 

[PACE]

Gramps, I send you:

The sweet smell of easter bread dough rising in my kitchen
The comforting bubbling sound of lamb shanks simmering in Middle Eastern spices
The hissing of a pork roast in a slow oven with sage, salt and pepper
The lilting laughter of my neice, who just went flying out the door to Easter church service.
The showering of my daughter, just up, who will eventually make her own "vegan" style Easter dishes
The slightly sulfurous smell of hard boiled eggs, cooling on the counter
The slight vinegary smell of colored water in cups, waiting for those eggs
The raucous cries of the mocking bird who nests in my evergreen ever spring
The joyous cacophony of the robins, fighting over the worms in my backyard.
The yawning of my two mini aussie sheperds as they wait patiently for the feast to be done

I wish you health, I wish you peace, I wish you the right visions of a new day, this Easter morning.

Regards
Pace

 

[NightSwimmer]

None of us can stop the turning of the wheel, but we have our memories, don't we?

Happy Easter, Gramps!

 

[Old Ridge Runner]

Gramps,

I pray for you, your son-in-law and your family. When you do have you Easter celebration may it be the best one your family ever had. Blessing of the Lord on you and your family.

ORR