Dear
Ones,
I
said I would post every Friday EXCEPT when life interfered. Well, life has poked and prodded and
definitely interfered these last couple of weeks. One doesn’t know how beautiful normal is
until things aren’t normal.
An
epistolary novel, it follows a Reverend as he writes at length about his life
and his family relationships. These
letters are his legacy that he plans to leave for his son.
Made
me think about what I would write if I decided to leave a letter for loved
ones. Of course there are many books out
there that do exactly that but I never really thought about doing it myself. Have you?
What would you say? What exactly
would you want to leave behind for the next generation?
Would
you give advice? Hah! No one wants my advice. How about recollections, memories, stories
from the past? Well, that’s more a
memoir. No, I’m talking about what you
would want them to know about life that you discovered along the path. I am sure I would say look up…look up…into
the skies. I wish I had started doing
that when I was younger. And pay
attention. So many magical things happen
along the way and we’re too busy looking at our email or fussing about what to
wear. Take butterflies or sunsets or
pansies blooming on a cold day. Life
happens while we are out to lunch sometimes. Don’t know precisely what else I’d
say.
For
beautiful old broads like us, this is probably a challenging but rewarding
project to consider. Whatcha think? When I have some time--not in the next few
weeks but later, I’m going to attempt it.
Will it be sappy or humorous or deep?
One thing I do know for sure…keep it brief. The attention span of the younger generation
is about as short as those mini skirts they wear.
I
asked my husband what he would write and after a short pause he said he knew
exactly what he’d say. He pulled out a
worn tiny piece of paper from his wallet on which was written a quote from Abraham
Lincoln.
“Do not let discouragement prey upon
you and in the end you will succeed”
A.
Lincoln
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