Today’s automobile:
Some thoughts for today:
Our Leesburg
Library has a poetry contest yearly. This year’s winners are in. I seldom read
poetry any more, but on a whim I read the first place winners in the Adult and
then the teen category….. I learned something,
life changes….
The Adult poem was very good. That is my opinion.
It actually was a mystery until the end it was the stuff on the side of the
road and the writer was picking up litter.
THEN I went to the Teen winner. Within 15 words the ‘F’ bomb was used.
I understand in today’s language it is considered by many, to be nothing but
silly to fuss about it. I read the poem it was fair, but didn’t need the
profanity in my opinion.
And then Susie in
her comment brought up OLD letters, cards and gifts held by us seniors. While trying
to clear out our stuff I found a pile of letters. Sherry and I must have saved
every letter. I CANNOT shred or throw them away either, but what to do with
them?
(Sherry has always had beautiful handwriting!)
We corresponded a lot while I was deployed. We did
graduate to cassettes, but reused them for return letters. None of those are around. We both used to ‘write “secrets”under the stamps’
before applying them, did you ever do that?
I do so appreciate all the comments and all you that read. I am just
trying to handle life’s situations, it does get harder once in your 80s, but
Life has always been a challenge and a joy.
One bright
point, our nephew Steve is going to contract for the shower next door.
NiteShipslog
PS: The name Susie is one of my favorites. Susie was the sweetest mother in law ever!
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6 comments:
So sweet you and Sherry saved all those letters! I bet your boys would want them just for nostalgia? I had never heard of writing a message under a stamp; learned something new today! I'm not much for poetry (other than what may be in the Bible) but I do agree that perhaps profanity shouldn't be used in cases like this.
betty
How nice of you and Sherry to have kept the letters you wrote to each other. You are an example to all of us.
God bless you both always.
Noooo ... please don't destroy those precious letters! What I wouldn't give to have even one or two hard copies of those my mother sent. Perhaps you can have them professionally scanned and/or preserved? Like Betty, I never heard of writing secrets under the stamp. How'd that work?
Sorry to be late. We had a terrific thunderstorm that knocked out our power ... and killed the PC. I'm trying to learn to use Tom's Chromebook; making more mistakes than a 5th grader. It's always something!
Such a lot of letters. We have some letters from pre-wedding times, and we were sooo young.
I left off, before I told you that having such memories is a gift. I have our in some bag in the closet, and I think you guilt-ed me into doing more.
We are in 3 digit temperatures, with promises of cooler temps. Do you believe them? Hah.
I say keep them, your boys might not want them but your granddaughter might. Us girls be different about that. Lol. I’ve always thought how neat it would be to have letters or a diary from my grandparents or great grandparents. My mom didn’t keep any letters, but there are some photos from when my Dad was in service with notes they wrote on them.
Take care, Sheila
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