heart rumbles: Ginny's Light

heart rumbles: Ginny's Light: He goes to get her up for the day. She gives him a pretty smile He is pleasantly surprised. He hasn't seen that in awhile. His excitemen...

Dear Norman

                                                              Dear Norman           

  I'm not sure what goes on in heaven. You may be able to see everything that is happening already. But I'm pretty sure that's where you are. So I'll send this to you in heaven.

  Norman I went by and saw Gladys today. I've tried to keep up with how she is doing. Today was a little sad. It's the third time I've been there since I've trained someone to take my place. She has already started to forget me. She knows she is comfortable with me and she still seems to trust me. Still she has few of the memories of the year we spent together. She has forgotten  my name and she thinks it has been a long time since I worked there on a daily basis. I requested that I be able to go there every other Saturday. I had hoped to reassure myself and your daughters that she is adjusting nicely to the change. I must say the good news is that she is getting along very well with the new caregiver and also still doing well with the evening girl that comes three times a week. When you died I started working all day five days one week and six days on alternate weeks. The evening girl started shortly after that. The first evening girl didn't work out.
  The weeks seemed to get longer and longer and that 67 mile round trip sometimes seemed like 100. But I hung in there for six months after your death because I wanted her to have some time to adjust to you being gone. I wanted to be able to help her through the grieving for you. I know her Alzheimer symptoms have gotten worse. But I don't believe she will ever stop grieving for you. That three day job I agreed to take due to an emergency, turned into over one year of me trying to be there at first for you and Gladys and later just for Gladys. Each day I grew more attached to the woman that you loved, honored and protected for 50 plus years. I also wanted to protect her. It was not an easy decision to leave.


To be continued...
SG Wallace
 

Thoughts From Mister Rogers

Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thought into deeds or visions into inventions.

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What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, of course, but the main one, I think, is whether we link our wishes to our active work. It may take months or years, but it's far more likely to happen when we care so much that we'll work as hard as we can to make it happen. And when we're working toward the realization of our wishes, some of our greatest strengths come from the encouragement of people who care about us.

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The World According to Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers