Looking together in the same direction.

Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.

by my favorite poet, Mary Oliver

"Instructions for living a life.

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it."

Mary Oliver


Monday, March 7, 2011

Wouldn't it be wonderful.

     This is just a follow up to yesterday's blog, Struck by Lightning.  I thought about my Grandparents all last night.  Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could talk to them again, just for a day, or just for an hour even.  I have so many questions.  Grandma, where in Canada was your family from ?  What was it like living through the Great Depression and 2 World Wars?  Grandpa, tell the story of your life in Sweden and coming to America. What was the best thing in your life,  the worst thing?  There are always so many unanswered questions and untold stories.
 
"What is a family, after all, except memories?-haphazard and precious as the contents of a catchall drawer in the kitchen."    Joyce Carol Oats

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